Employed Carers and Family-Friendly Employment Policies

Employers are placing increasing significance on human resources policies designed to enable their employees to achieve an improved work-life balance. This report outlines how employees and managers in three sectors - banking, grocery retail and local authorities - have experienced the "family-friendly employment" options available in their place of work in the UK. The research illustrates individual experiences of family-friendly employment policies in similar workplaces in two contrasting localities: East Kent and South Yorkshire. It also looks at workplace experiences in the context of the local services available to support employees with caring responsibilities. The report, published in association with the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, will be of interest to human resources managers, trade unions, policymakers in government, employers' organizations, and to researchers and social scientists interested in the relationship between work and family life. It gives new insight into the b

List of contents

Introduction and background; Caring and employment in two localities; Employers and family-friendly employment policies; Caring and experiences of employees; Infrastructures of care support and examples of good practice in supporting working carers; Conclusions

About the author

Sue Yeandle is Professor of Sociology in the Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research at Sheffield Hallam University. Andrea Wigfield is currently researching employment issues at the University of Sheffield. Rosemary Crompton is Professor of Sociology at City University, London Jane Dennett was formerly a researcher at City University.

Summary

This report outlines how employees and managers in three sectors - banking, grocery retail and local authorities - have experienced the 'family-friendly employment' options available in their place of work.

Product details

• Authors: R. Compton, Rosemary Crompton, Rosemary (Sociology Department Crompton, Jane Dennett, Jane (Personal Social Services Research Unit Dennett, Andrea Wigfield, Andrea (Department of Sociological Studies Wigfield, Sue Yeandle, Sue (University of Sheffield Yeandle, Susan Yeandle
• Publisher: Policy Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.09.2002
• EAN: 9781861344809
• ISBN: 978-1-86134-480-9
• No. of pages: 44
• Weight: 200 g
• Illustrations: Not illustrated
• Series: Family & Work S; Family and Work Series; Family and Work Series; Family and Work
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Soziologie: Familie und Beziehungen, Arbeits- / Einkommensökonomie