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1 family-friendly practices at work are intended to make sure employees with children are able to continue with their job without having additional problems because they have children:
The government aims to encourage more women in key roles and promote family-friendly employment policies.
2 a family-friendly place is a place where people with children are welcome:
They have recently launched a chain of family-friendly restaurants.
It comes as government policy is placing increasing emphasis on family-friendly policies to support informal carers in the workplace.
The promotion of paid work is not, however, only a matter of financial incentives: it involves too childcare, transport and family-friendly employment.
There were no measures or schemes to ensure freelancers a less exhausting or more family-friendly schedule.
Moreover, it sought to investigate why they existed and thus to assess the potential of current equality and family-friendly policies.
One of the most important findings is that, despite the availability of a widerange of family-friendly policies, in practice very few are used by working carers.
I shall focus on family-friendly policies and flexible working.
We also encourage all employers to adopt family-friendly employment policies such as flexible working and help with child care.
We are working with employers, voluntary organisations and trade unions to promote family-friendly policies and encourage best practice.
