{"id":2650,"date":"2011-04-27T10:20:23","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T09:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/?p=2650"},"modified":"2015-06-12T16:18:58","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T15:18:58","slug":"carer-employment-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/?p=2650","title":{"rendered":"Carer employment rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3494\" title=\"Carer employment rights\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/carers_rights.jpg\" alt=\"Female call-centre worker and a chef chopping veg\" width=\"577\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/carers_rights.jpg 577w, https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/carers_rights-300x151.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 577px) 100vw, 577px\" \/><br \/>\nIn Scotland there are 243 000 carers in employment. 13 000 new strokes per year with 3000 occurring in people who are under 65.<\/p>\n<p>Many carers struggle to work and care at the same time. <a title=\"Opens new window\" href=\"http:\/\/www.legislation.gov.uk\/ukpga\/2006\/18\/notes\/division\/2\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Work and Families Act 2006<\/strong> <\/a>and the <a title=\"Opens new window\" href=\"http:\/\/www.legislation.gov.uk\/ukpga\/1996\/18\/contents\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Employment Rights Act 1996<\/strong><\/a> give you three main rights.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Right to request flexible working.<\/li>\n<li>Right to request time off in an emergency.<\/li>\n<li>Parental leave rights.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Scotland there are 243 000 carers in employment. 13 000 new strokes per year with 3000 occurring in people who are under 65. Many carers struggle to work and care at the same time. The Work and Families Act &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/?p=2650\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[362,359],"class_list":["post-2650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carers-rights","tag-employment-rights","tag-work-and-families"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2650"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6257,"href":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650\/revisions\/6257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stroke4carers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}