Employment

ACS Submission: Improving Access to Flexible Working

This consultation seeks views on:

- a proposed new light touch process for employers consulting with employees where a request cannot be immediately agreed
- what training, resources and support can help businesses navigate flexible working requests
- other ways to improve access to flexible working

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ACS Submission: Enhanced dismissal protections for pregnant women and new mothers

The consultation is seeking views on enhancing dismissal protections for pregnant women and new mothers, including:

- the specific circumstances in which the dismissal of pregnant women and new mothers should still be allowed
- when the protections should start and end
- whether other new parents should be covered by the protections

The consultation also seeks views on:

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ACS Submission: Leave for bereavement including pregnancy loss

The Employment Rights Bill introduced a new day-one right to unpaid bereavement leave for employees who experience the loss of a loved one, including pregnancy loss before 24 weeks.

This consultation seeks views on:

- eligibility criteria
- types of pregnancy loss in scope
- when and how bereavement leave can be taken
- notice and evidence requirements

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ACS Submission: Make Work Pay: trade union right of access

The Employment Rights Bill will introduce a new framework for trade unions to access workplaces physically, and to communicate with workers in person or digitally. This is a consultation on how the new legal framework for trade unions’ right of access into workplaces should work in practice. 

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