Employers should also encourage part-time and flexible working, the MPs say.
Two things that should happen to encourage part-time or flexible work arrangements: First, exemptions from paying overtime pay should be tightened.
Ironically, therefore, I find myself as a man arguing that to weaken the Paula Principle we need forcefully to encourage part-time careers for men.
In France each year of absence is estimated to lower earnings by 7-17%.Theffectct is magnified when lengthy maternity leave is combined with policies to encourage part-time work, which tempt more women back into the labour force but help keep them in junior positions.
Justifying poor policy often makes politicians say dumb things, and yesterday we saw a classic case by the minister for finance, Senator Mathias Cormann, as he attempted to argue that a tax cut for people earning over $80,000 was necessary to encourage part-time workers make the "additional effort" to work full-time.
When your child is in high school, encourage part-time work.
We also encourage part-time enrollment of financial professionals seeking to increase their understanding of the quantitative side of finance.
So both teams enter the final weekend in curious moods, part encouraged, part deflated.
Since then, Berlin has implemented changes to labor laws, matching work hours more closely to demand, introducing job sharing and encouraging part-time work.
Back at Liverpool, Latham's boss, Tom Solomon, director of the Institute of Infection and Global Health, says encouraging part-time and flexible working is a no-brainer.
The regime in Tehran has encouraged parts of the insurgency in Iraq and is widely suspected of involvement in the murder of British troops around Basra.
