Anne Summer's do a small silver bullet, similar to the one that goes in a rock chick. It is the best toy I have ever had, all my friends have one now too and a steal at only £10!
Happy Birthday Jo, have a great day. Sorry we can't be there. xx
Anyone who thinks that Europe is a pointless waste of money and other resources needs to actually understand what we have benefited from it.
Firstly on an economic front, the EU is the largest single market and British businesses take full advantage of it, with over half of our trade coming from Europe and millions of jobs depending on this.
Secondly, being part of Europe has also meant the introduction of measures including: paid holidays; a right to parental leave; extended maternity leave; the right to request flexible working and the same protection for part-time workers as full-time workers as well as the working time directive, ensuring breaks and maximimum working hours.
Advising employees, negotiating with employers and indepth employement law knowledge is my job so I thoguht I would add some further information to what has already been said.
First of all, just a slight correction to something that has been said earlier; you have the right to 'request' flexible working and not the right to flexible working.
Your employer has a duty to seriously consider your request and give a decision based on business grounds and not an individuals circumstances. An employer can say no and if they state a sound business reason for doing so, there is little that you can do about it. You can appeal but in my experience this more often than not does not change the initial decision, as under law 'you have no right to make a complaint where you simply disagree with the business grounds provided for declining your request.'
If an employer does refuse your request they must do so in writing, giving you the reason for it. It must be for one of 8 business reasons set out in law and must explain why that reason applies. The reasons that can be use are:
burden of additional costs
detrimental effect on ability to meet customer demand
inability to reorganise work among existing staff
inability to recruit additional staff
detrimental impact on quality
detrimental impact on performance
insufficiency of work during the periods the employee proposes to work
planned structural changes
I'm afraid that the law is most definately not on the side of working parents on this one.
You can get further advice from ACAS, but in terms of what to do at the meeting, I would contact your union if you have one on site. If you are a member and they can accompany you to a meeting you are probably more likely to succeed in your request, as in my experience when there are already negotiation and discussion channels open it works better and can bring a little pressure onto an employer who might otherwise say no.
If you do not have or are not a member of the union it will be more difficult for you as you will have to go in and argue your own case. Depending on how hostile your employer is, you may need to formalise your request under the statutory guidelines. Information on how to do this (you need to put it in writing and include certain information) can be found on both the and acas websites.
With regards to the meeting itself, it is helpful if you prepare your case in advance, including what the benefits to the business might be and what effect any changes will have on your job. You should try to show that your plans would not harm the business and may in fact enhance it and of course always make sure you take someone into any meeting you have and that you take notes.
If your employer is not saying no but requesting you work an alternative to your suggestion then you will need to consider this and see if there is some middle position that you can come to with them, so that you both are happy with the outcome.
In terms of the changes mentioned earlier that are happening from 6th April, these will not make a difference to your situation. All they do is change the age that your child/ren have to be to make the request, so all parents of children 16 and under now have the right to make the request.
Hope this helps and sorry it's not more favourable to you, but this is a particular bit of law that really doesn't help working parents. Good employers already consider requests and those that don't want to allow it will just find a business reason not to, the legal obligation for them to 'consider' in fact means very little in practice.
Wow, not done this for a while but got 10/10. Have to admit some were lucky guesses but will have to do this more often.
I have. Didn't have the laser treatment but have had the trays (a mould is made from an impression of your teeth so that it fits excactly and you wear them with a bleaching gel in)
It worked really well but it was fairly expensive at nearly £200 and it can be a little bad pain, just twinges like when you eat something really cold.
This was a few years ago now and it does fade, although mine are still white they are not as good as they were, it's all the coffeee that I drink! I saw an advert for an offer on laser whitening the other day for only £99 so I am considering that as a top up.
Try lessbounce, they stock loads of different brands of sports bra's, including 'shockabsorber' which I have always found to be the best. I find that the racer back ones are the best as the straps don't fall down your shoulders.
Oooo I like, DG. Fabulous.:rascal: