Currently, the right to request flexible working is available to parents of children aged under 17, parents of disabled children under 18 and carers of certain adults. But this was set to be extended from April.
But in a speech to the Federation of Small Businesses, in Liverpool, business minister Mark Prisk said the regulation would be scrapped as part of a range of measures to help businesses.
"We want smaller enterprises to be thinking about how to grow their business, not how to deal with the latest request from government," he said. "Unless it is about public safety or national security, you should be minding your business, not ours.
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