Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 19 June 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Better Care, Better Business Report: IBEC

9:30 am

Dr. Kara McGann:

It will absolutely be in there. We will be looking for supports around the carer’s guarantee and other elements in that whole long-term space. I want to mention one thing with regard to flexibility. We really want to see that culture of change among employers. We want to see employers recognising that working carers are part of their workforce into the future and future-proofing their organisations accordingly. That is to allow formal flexibility but also the informal flexibility where somebody rings up and says the carer is not in a position to turn up that day because of an emergency, and the employee might need to postpone work or work from home, and that is okay because our organisational culture says that is part of how we do our business. We think that is as important as the formal procedures in place and that employers definitely need to play their part in acknowledging that working carers are part of our future workforce and we need to support them if we are going to keep them in the labour market.

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