Working Families

Working Families is a UK-based charity dedicated to supporting working parents and carers. Their mission is to remove barriers these individuals face in the workplace by providing free legal advice, offering tools and resources for employers to build flexible and family-friendly environments, and advocating for policy changes that promote secure and flexible jobs as the norm. Working Families believes in a society where everyone can fully meet their work and caring responsibilities, ensuring equal opportunity for all parents and carers to thrive at work and at home.

Working Families' approach is collaborative, practical, inclusive, and driven. They partner with organizations to amplify the voices of working parents and carers, championing their needs and advocating for a more equitable workplace. Their impact is evidenced by their research, their work with employers, and their ongoing campaigns to influence government policy.

Working Families offers flexible working arrangements across all roles based on business needs, with a day one entitlement. This means that employees can discuss flexible working arrangements with their manager from the start of their employment. This demonstrates a commitment to creating a balanced and supportive work environment where employees can prioritize their well-being and family responsibilities.

Working Families is a generous employer, offering its employees a range of benefits, including flexible working arrangements across all roles, 25 days of annual leave (increasing to 30 days with years of service), a 5% employer pension contribution, enhanced pay and leave for new parents, 10 days of paid leave for emergencies, and discretionary enhanced sick pay.

Working Families is the UK's national charity dedicated to removing workplace barriers for working parents and carers. They provide free legal advice, resources, and tools to empower parents and carers while advocating for policy changes that create a flexible and family-friendly work environment for all. They strive to ensure that every parent and carer has an equal opportunity to secure and progress in their career, regardless of their caring responsibilities.

Working Families promotes a collaborative and inclusive culture that values practical solutions and strives to create a workplace where everyone feels empowered to be themselves. The organization actively seeks to attract diverse talent, build understanding within its own team, and collaborate with partners across the UK to ensure flexible working is available to all.

Working Families is committed to creating an inclusive workplace and organisational culture. They aim to attract diverse talent, empower all working parents and carers to understand and use their workplace rights, and build relationships with employers to create flexible and family-friendly workplaces. They recognise that building an inclusive environment is key to attracting and maintaining diverse employees and acknowledge that diversity makes business sense by encouraging a productive and creative organization. They are taking steps to embed inclusion and diversity across their organisation by monitoring and evaluating their progress and considering equality factors across the employee lifecycle.