This ensures minimal disruption and business continuity during core hours.
Flexible working hours scheme being piloted (7am-7pm, no core hours), career-break scheme.
Would Mind, for example, reduce its own core hours from 35 hours to 30?
The Leeds-based charity Epilepsy Action also operates flexible working practices, with no core hours, time-off-in-lieu, and a 34.5-hour working week.
Hours 9.30am to 5.30pm (flexible around core hours of 10am to 4pm), with 30 days holiday rising to 34 days after four years.
Instead, his cheapskate solution to weekend underfunding is to stretch an already broken workforce of juniors so our weekly core hours extend from 60 to 90.
Many councils offer flexi-time to most employees – as long as staff work core hours (typically 10am until 4pm), they can choose how they work the rest of their contracted hours.
But most of the changes proposed by departments – such as holding key meetings during core hours, or promoting flexible working – end up benefitting both sexes, especially those who are parents and caregivers, making the profession a little bit more friendly.
"Employees choose their working pattern within core hours of 10am to 5pm, and may work from home provided it doesn't interfere with meetings which require their physical presence," explains co-founder Markus Steinhauser.
The health secretary told parliament that he would impose the revised terms and conditions on junior doctors in August – making Saturday part of their core hours – after two months of negotiations failed to end the long-running and bitter dispute.
Rayner added that there is a two-tier approach to learning within adult social care with staff not expected to learn outside of core hours while those without a permanent contract had to fulfil training requirements in their own time.
