{"id":119246,"date":"2025-09-04T12:11:37","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T12:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/119246\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T12:11:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T12:11:37","slug":"firms-say-family-friendly-employment-laws-costing-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/119246\/","title":{"rendered":"Firms say family friendly employment laws costing more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Business leaders in Jersey have warned the government about bringing in further laws to help workers who have families.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Jersey Chamber of Commerce said its recent study showed many companies were facing higher costs and difficulties meeting requests for leave and flexible-working hours due to family friendly employment rules.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The chamber&#8217;s chief executive Murray Norton said while the group welcomed improvement in staff morale from the flexibility, businesses must be allowed to work effectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">A States of Jersey spokesperson said a scrutiny review into the impact of family friendly legislation on businesses was already under way and the findings would be reported when complete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Business leaders in Jersey have warned the government about bringing in further laws to help workers who have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[45,49,48,124],"class_list":{"0":"post-119246","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-jobs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}