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Flexible Hours

UK employees with children can now request


more flexible working hours from their employers.
However, these new rights often involve agreeing
to less favorable conditions.
What do you understand by the term
‘flexitime’?
Do you have flexible hours in your job?
Is there any law in Brazil about
“flexitime”?
What are the rights of Brazilian
employees who have children?
Flexitime
A system in which workers choose the
hours each day that they work, as long
as the hours add up to the same fixed
number of hours every week or month.
– noun, British English
– Definition of flexitime from Macmillan English
Dictionary.
New regulations state that parents with a
child under six can ask employers for a
change in working hours, day or location of
work, so long as they have been with the
employer for at least six months. Read the six
letters from the letters page of a UK
magazine on personnel issues. Decide which
are for and which are against the new
regulations.
Explain your decisions.
(A) Dear Sir or Madam
There are now more women in work
than ever. I think that employers cannot
ignore the many benefits of flexible
working, especially for staff morale and
retention.
Jane Gledhall, Stratford
(B) Dear Editor
While I agree with the idea of flexible working,
the current rules are not fair. In order to do a
four-day week, my employer has asked me to
take a salary cut and to consider a demotion.
It seems that the only way I can help with
childcare is to take home less money and do
something I did years ago – hardly
motivating.
Jamie Dawson, Hants
C) Dear Sir
Eight out of ten employees so far have
had their requests for flexible working
granted. However, the situation now is
that you have the “right to ask” only;
what would be even better for parents is
the actual right to flexible working hours.
Mark Smith, Edinburgh
D) Sir
In my opinion, flexible working is great
for people who have children. But what
about everyone else? In my company,
those of us without kids get left with all
the antisocial hours – and that’s not fair.
John Lyle, Cambridge
(E) Dear Editor
The new legislation has helped me
enormously. I can see more of my daughter at
the time I need to most – during her first few
years. I have much more flexibility in when I
get to work and when I leave, and my quality
of life – and therefore my work – has
definitely improved.
C.R., London
(F) Dear Sir or Madam
The effect of this new legislation on small
businesses is huge. In my firm, I have just
one person in every key department, but no
cover. So, if I adopt flexible working, how can
the company run when someone is away? It’s
fine for bigger companies, but not for small
businesses.
Pete Haddon, Managing Director, Computer
Consultants
Find words or expressions in
the letters from their
definitions.
(a) the amount of enthusiasm employees feel
about their situation (Letter A)
(b) the ability to keep workers from leaving a
company (Letter A)
(c) the opposite of promotion (Letter B)
(d) working times which make it difficult to meet
people and have normal relationships (Letter D)
(e) an arrangement where a person does the
work of someone who is away from work
(Letter F)
Discuss the following
questions
Which letter(s) do you agree with most?
What is the position on flexible hours in
your own company/country?
Are you for or against flexible working?

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