Debate contribution: Post-19 SEN Support
Debate contribution by Mr Conor Murphy on .
- MLA
- Mr Conor Murphy
- Party at the time
- Sinn Féin
- Date
- 2 December 2024
- Type
- Debate contribution (made as a minister)
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Post-19 SEN Support
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 4686663
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The employment rights Bill consultation sought views on enhancing flexible working rights. Flexible working is an agreed way of meeting the needs of an employer and an employee through alternative approaches to working. It can enable those with caring responsibilities, disabilities or long-term health needs to access and remain in the workforce. The consultation, which closed at the end of September, proposed enhancements to existing rights by making flexible working requests available from the first day of employment, allowing an employee to make two statutory requests in any 12-month period and removing the requirement that an employee must explain, as part of the statutory request, what effect the change would have on the employer and how that might be dealt with. The consultation responses are being analysed, and I expect to be able to introduce a Bill in the Assembly by January 2026 or, if there is scope to do so, earlier.
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