All employees with 26 weeks’ continuous service have the right to request a flexible working arrangement. In the event you reject such a request do they have any statutory right of appeal?
Published 09.12.2015
All employees with at least 26 weeks’ continuous service have the right to make a flexible working request. When one is made, how long do you have to respond and what must you also bear in mind?
Published 09.03.2020
On 30 June 2014 the right to request flexible working will be extended to all employees. Could you save yourself the hassle of dealing with any applications by having a “no flexible working requests”
rule?
Published 21.05.2014
On 6 April 2014 the statutory right to request flexible working will be extended to all employees. Thankfully, this change isn’t as bad for employers as it first sounds. What do you need to know?
Published 29.01.2014
Any employee with at least 26 weeks’ continuous service now has the statutory right to request a flexible working arrangement. If they do, can you demand to know what they want it for?
Published 26.08.2014
It’s estimated that around ten million employees now have the statutory right to request a flexible working pattern. But how can you deal with an application from a member of staff who isn’t a parent
or a carer and so doesn’t have this right?
Published 15.05.2009
In a 2016 case the employee - who was returning from maternity leave - had asked for an evenings-only homeworking arrangement. When this was rejected she claimed sex discrimination. Why did she lose?
Published 03.11.2016
The Employment Relations (Flexible Working) Act 2023, which received Royal Assent in July 2023, is expected to come into force in the next twelve months. Will it enhance existing flexible
working rights?
Published 24.08.2023
An employee who is returning from maternity leave wants to work part-time and has submitted a written request for flexible working. But you’ve refused the request without meeting her. What legal
claims might you now face?
Published 08.01.2009
In September 2019 the TUC stated that “at least one in three flexible working requests are rejected”. What’s often forgotten is that a request must be valid or it can be rejected. What does this
mean?
Published 10.10.2019