"These may include granting time off, enabling access to other forms of leave and affording maximum flexibility with working hours and locations".
The Foreign Office said that more than 5,500 Syrians had been granted asylum or other forms of leave to remain in Britain since the start of the conflict in 2011.
Positive flexible arrangements are flexitime, working time accounts, trusted flexitime, opportunities for home-working, sabbaticals and different forms of leave.
In reply to Mrs Doyle, concerning maternity leave, the Commission is to prepare an impact evaluation on possible legislative measures introducing new forms of leave - adoption leave, and leave to care for family members other than children.
The garnish often takes the form of leaves or twigs.
Only about half of the living vegetation comprises aboveground shoots, and only a small part of that is in the form of leaves or other green parts such as stems in which photosynthesis takes place.
Although tangles of lianas are known to delay forest regrowth in canopy gaps, a large number of animals depend on lianas for food in the form of leaves, sap, nectar, pollen, and fruit.
Experts have long known that northern lands were a storehouse of frozen carbon, locked up in the form of leaves, roots and other organic matter trapped in icy soil — a mix that, when thawed, can produce methane and carbon dioxide, gases that trap heat and warm the planet.
The window above this has a round arch, a moulded archivolt, a keystone with acanthus decoration and thin pilasters topped with capitals in the form of leaves.
Bromeliad refers to a group of plants that form a rosette shape of leaves.
