work-life balance directive will place higher costs on employers at a challenging time, business groups have said.
Parents or carers will have the right to request flexible or compressed work hours and women will be entitled to paid breastfeeding breaks from the current six months to two years., said one of its frustration was the general desire “to want to introduce a cornucopia of different types of leave entitlement” without consideration being given to their cost or impact to businesses, particularly in the service industry.
He called for a “joined-up conversation, particularly in the service economy” on the increasing cost of delivering services and the impact of the cost of delivery of those services.
'...business lobby claims' lmao