Social Policy
This is prayer in action in a pro-active rather than a re-active way. National, International and local issues receive our support. The network of the Mothers’ Union is a peaceful lobby for raising awareness of injustice.
Flexible Families
More and more parents are working these days which means that families can be easily overstretched trying to manage their work within the family and within the wider economy.
Flexible working is one tool for easing the tension on parents. All children need emotional and financial support from their parents, and all parents need the opportunities to exercise real choice in bringing up their families. The right for all parents to request flexible working is not a miracle solution. However, society, families and relationships can only benefit from this small change.
Flexible working provides a work pattern to suit both the employer and the worker. Although some employers run their own flexible working schemes, parents now legally have the right to request flexible working. This means that these parents can ask for changes to the hours and times they work, as well as the place they work from. Employers can refuse requests on legitimate business grounds.
Mothers' Union supports flexible families
The Mothers’ Union actively supported the recent Flexible Families campaign and is now keen to monitor the effects of the extended legislation which came into effect in April 2009. If you or a friend has asked for, or is thinking about asking for, such flexible working arrangements we would be very interested to hear whether such requests have been successful.
Please contact policy@mothersunionmanchester.org or call Mary Doyle on 0161 428 6415.
Equal sharing of responsibilities
"The equal sharing of responsibilities between women and men, including caregiving in the context of HIV/AIDS" is the theme for the UN 53rd Commission on the Status of Women.
This theme is one about which Mothers' Union has much to say. Why not download this discussion paper and use to consider roles and responsibilities in the Home, in Church and in Society?
