NDM7045 Gareth Bennett (South Wales Central)

To propose that the National Assembly for Wales:

1. Notes that National Work Wise Week takes place from Sunday 12 May to Saturday 18 May 2019.

2. Believes that home working provides more flexibility for family responsibilities, and also has wider benefits, such as less traffic and pollution, more accessible work for disabled people, and keeping premises costs down for businesses.

3. Calls on the Welsh Government to ensure that all public bodies in Wales have a duty to include home working in job design and recruitment.

4. Calls on the Welsh Government to develop a specific strategy for home working within the successor project to Superfast Cymru, to ensure that people who wish to work from home are not impeded by a lack of broadband access.

The following amendments were tabled:

Amendment 1 - Rebecca Evans (Gower)

In point 4, delete:

“to develop a specific strategy for home working within the successor project to Superfast Cymru,”

Amendment 2 - Darren Millar (Clwyd West)

Add as new point at end of motion:

Notes that Professor Sharon Clarke and Dr Lyn Holdsworth of Manchester Business School have stated that flexible workers, and particularly home workers, face ‘’the potential for occupational stress to be increased as a result of work intensification, conflicts with co-workers, and disrupted information flow’’ and acknowledges the need for these issues to be factored into future policy making.

Professor Sharon Clarke and Dr Lyn Holdsworth, Flexibility in the Workplace: Implications of flexible work arrangements for individuals, teams and organisations, 2017