However DTI research found flexible hours was what parents wanted most. This could start a revolution. He has also proposed a loophole that would effectively nullify the right to flexible work. Small businesses may be exempt. Labour has gone to extraordinary lengths to mollify small employers as if they were a national treasure, when the opposite is often the case.
Small businesses are already exempt from many workers rights.
When the minimum wage was first mooted, it was small employers who claimed thousands of jobs would be lost. Those running small nursing homes, or marginal catering and cleaning outfits often offer bad services, undercutting better professional companies that give employees decent conditions. As larger companies point out sardonically, few small companies choose to be small. Yet there is a strange Treasury sentimentality about them, offering special tax breaks and assistance. Labour's manifesto could trounce the Tories by offering a revolution for young families.