Flexible working

New and updated

• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Letter inviting employee to meeting to discuss permanent homeworking arrangement because of workplace closure

  A model letter to invite an employee to a meeting to discuss a move to permanent homeworking. Depending on the size and nature of your organisation, cost-saving measures to reduce the need for redundancies could include the closure of your work locations and move to permanent homeworking for some or all of your staff.

• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Letter to employee confirming permanent homeworking arrangement because of workplace closure

  A model letter to confirm a move to permanent homeworking with an employee. Depending on the size and nature of your organisation, cost-saving measures to reduce the need for redundancies could include the closure of your work locations and move to permanent homeworking for some or all of your staff.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Age discrimination: Requiring semi-retired dog handler to work full time was discriminatory

  In Broadist v HM Prison Service, an employment tribunal found that the employer's refusal to allow a semi-retired dog handler to remain working on a part-time basis with an alternative dog, after his dog had died, amounted to indirect age discrimination.

• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Letter agreeing to employee's flexible working request

  Updated with information on forthcoming reforms under the Employment Rights Bill. 

• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Letter outlining compromise arrangement following flexible working request

  Updated with information on forthcoming reforms under the Employment Rights Bill. 

• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Letter refusing employee's flexible working request

  Updated with information on forthcoming reforms under the Employment Rights Bill. 

• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Letter responding to employee's appeal against refusal to grant flexible working request

  Updated with information on forthcoming reforms under the Employment Rights Bill. 

• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Letter upholding employee's appeal against refusal to grant flexible working request

  Updated with information on forthcoming reforms under the Employment Rights Bill. 

• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Letter rejecting employee's appeal against refusal to grant flexible working request

  Updated with information on forthcoming reforms under the Employment Rights Bill. 

• Date:

  8 June 2020

  Type:

  Commentary and insights

  Lifting the lockdown: Permanent homeworking arrangements

  Many organisations moved to large-scale homeworking overnight when coronavirus (COVID-19) lockdown arrangements were introduced. But as governments ease restrictions, some are now actively considering whether or not the arrangements could be made permanent.