Flexi-work makes progress - Legislation to facilitate telecommuting - Business - Jamaica Gleaner - Friday | July 13, 2012

Flexi-work makes progress - Legislation to facilitate telecommuting - Business - Jamaica Gleaner - Friday | July 13, 2012: "After nearly two decades of discussions and trials, legislation that will effectively kill the concept of the nine-to-five workday as baseline policy is being drafted to imbed flexible work schedules into current law.

The process will not create new statute but simply adjust or amend existing legislation.

"The intention is not to legislate flexible work arrangements, so there will be no law created for the purpose of that. What will be amended are existing acts to facilitate different working times," Danny Roberts, head of the Trade Union Education Institute, said Wednesday.

"The whole matter ought to be a dialogue between employers, workers and trade unions," he said."

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