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LATEST NEWS & EVENTS Flexible working rights to be extended  Government plans to reform flexible working rules could see more people seek an employment contract law service. The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) said it wants to extend the right to request flexible working for all workers who have been with their employer for 26 weeks. It will consider publishing a statutory Code of Practice for businesses and will propose that they should be allowed to take into account employees individual circumstances when considering conflicting requests. However, there are no plans to alter the current list of eight reasons for a business to turn down a request. In addition, non-legislative measures are being developed to promote flexible working opportunities, BIS said. Work and pensions minister Maria Miller commented: "For far too long flexible working has been dismissed as a burden on business, when in fact the most successful businesses understand the important role it can play in recruiting and retaining the right staff." In addition to these proposals, people using an employment discrimination claim solicitor will find that companies that have been found to have discriminated on pay according to gender will have to conduct and publish a wages audit. The CBI criticised this move, describing an equal pay audit as a "blunt instrument". Posted by Alex McLean 
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