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Work-life balance
UNISON's 2002 launch of a work-life balance campaign aimed to inform members and promote the potential benefits of work-life balance for service delivery and staff satisfaction.
Documents & Links
Work-life balance: Rhetoric versus reality? An independent report commissioned by UNISON from the Work Foundation.
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Work-life balance campaign
www.unison.org.uk/worklifebalance/
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Work-life balance campaign
www.unison.org.uk/worklifebalance/
The case for work-life balance tends to be made on two counts. First, that work-life balance improves individuals' health, wellbeing and job satisfaction. Second, that business can benefit from work-life balance because these policies improve productivity and worker commitment; reduce sickness absence; increase retention rates for talented workers; allow organisations to recruit from a wider pool of talent; and enable organisations to offer services beyond usual business hours.
The business case arguments have had particular resonance with the public sector, where a high proportion of the workforce is female and there is a drive to provide increasingly customer-focused services at more flexible times, requiring differentiated patterns of work.
UNISON commissioned this project from the Work Foundation to improve its understanding of work-life balance among members, to analyse the extent to which the growing awareness and popularity of work-life balance has translated into cultural change, and to develop recommendations about how organisations in the public sector need to move debates and practice forward.
CONTACT DETAILS
• The UNISON contact for the Positively Public campaign is Margie Jaffe.
Positively Public
1 Mabledon Place
London WC1H 9AJ
Email us
• The UNISON contact for the Positively Public campaign is Margie Jaffe.
Positively Public
1 Mabledon Place
London WC1H 9AJ
Email us
Recent documents
UNISON Response to Lord's Inquiry on PFI
UNISON's submission to the House of Lord's Inquiry into PFI highlights our concerns around the methodology of PFI, risk transfer, high costs, value for money and workforce issues.
UNISON Response to the Select Committee on Economic Affairs - House of Lords
ISA - staff side principles
The following principles have been drawn up in partnership by trade unions and professional organisations which collectively represent over 4 million members affected by the ISA Vetting and Barring scheme. Our principles seek to support effective public protection, but also identify areas of concern surrounding the scheme.
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Reclaiming the Initiative - putting the public back into PFI
The report catalogues how ever-growing billions of public money has become locked into financing massively expensive PFI schemes. The Government has committed taxpayers, for a generation to come, to a bill of more than £217bn worth of repayments between now and 2033/34 on just £64bn of PFI projects. PFI’s reliance on the private sector was supposed to give public building programmes more rigour and strength but, as the union’s latest report - “Putting the Public Back into PFI” – shows, in reality it has exposed them to greater hazards and weaknesses. Public projects have been tainted by private failure
Acrobat PDF version
A million voices for change
Download UNISON's agenda for a strong economy and a fair society and get involved in our campaign
Putting you first
UNISON's submission to the House of Lord's Inquiry into PFI highlights our concerns around the methodology of PFI, risk transfer, high costs, value for money and workforce issues.
UNISON Response to the Select Committee on Economic Affairs - House of Lords
ISA - staff side principles
The following principles have been drawn up in partnership by trade unions and professional organisations which collectively represent over 4 million members affected by the ISA Vetting and Barring scheme. Our principles seek to support effective public protection, but also identify areas of concern surrounding the scheme.
Acrobat PDF version
Reclaiming the Initiative - putting the public back into PFI
The report catalogues how ever-growing billions of public money has become locked into financing massively expensive PFI schemes. The Government has committed taxpayers, for a generation to come, to a bill of more than £217bn worth of repayments between now and 2033/34 on just £64bn of PFI projects. PFI’s reliance on the private sector was supposed to give public building programmes more rigour and strength but, as the union’s latest report - “Putting the Public Back into PFI” – shows, in reality it has exposed them to greater hazards and weaknesses. Public projects have been tainted by private failure
Acrobat PDF version
A million voices for change
Download UNISON's agenda for a strong economy and a fair society and get involved in our campaign
Putting you first
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