Manifesto 06/07 - Work and family

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Manifesto 06/07: Work and family

Lone parents' top priority: Make part-time work worthwhile and focus on better-paid, better-quality jobs for lone parents.

Pay Working Tax Credit to all those working over 8 hours a week and lower the number of hours that lone parents must work to receive an additional premium within the Working Tax Credit from 30 hours to 20.
Extend the full New Deal Plus for Lone Parents service across the country. At the very least roll out the In Work Emergency Fund and allow Personal Advisers full discretion over its use.
Open the recently announced Work Related Activity Premium to all lone parents on an opt-in basis.
Raise the minimum wage to at least two thirds of male median earnings.
Extend the right to ask for flexible working to parents of children aged up to 18 years, and introduce 13 weeks of paid parental leave.
Allow mothers a year's paid maternity leave and extend both the amount and the pay level for paternity leave.

Goal: Enable lone parents to make real choices about balancing work and family life.


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