Friday Podcast: Flexible working in practice, public sector HR dinosaurs, and corporate responsibility to the unemployed

HR news and analysis including:

• equalities groups warn that employees are not taking up their right to request flexible working for fear it will damage their careers
• public sector HR has been accused of being archaic by the chief of the PPMA
• and Jo Robbins, group HR director at consultancy VT group explains why it is important for employers to help the long-term unemployed back into work.

Louisa Peacock is joined this week by Greg Pitcher, Mike Berry and Rob Moss.

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