Term-time contracts mean that employees work only while schools are open - something they are eligible to do from the beginning of their employment.
Workers who care for children will be familiar with the scramble to book time off to coincide with school holidays when many of their colleagues are trying to do the same.
Every worker in the UK has the right to request flexible working - not just parents and carers - after they have worked for the same employer for at least 26 weeks. But Amazon's move is slightly different in that a worker doesn't have to go through these steps, and they don't have to be employed for a certain amount of time before they benefit from the new working pattern - they can have it from the moment they start work because it's in their contract.
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