Unions to push for flexible working hours

TOO many employers are failing to give parents and carers the flexible hours they need, unions say.

The Australian Council of Trade Unions will lodge a submission to the federal government's review of workplace laws calling for employees to be given the right to appeal an employer's decision to refuse them more flexible hours.

ACTU secretary Ged Kearney said parents and carers were being forced into unsecure, lower paid and less-skilled work because employers would not accommodate reasonable requests.

"We know that without real choices to accommodate their responsibilities, many carers today, mostly women, are forced out of decent jobs," she told reporters in Melbourne.

University of South Australia industrial relations expert Professor Barbara Pocock said the demands of Australia's ageing population heightened the need for flexible workplaces.

"What we have is an ageing freight train coming down the tracks towards us as employers and as a community," she said.

"We need a right to request that is available for people who are looking after old people as well as children."

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