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Flexible working

New and updated

  • Type:
    Policies and procedures

    Sabbatical leave policy

    Revised to reflect current practice around sabbaticals, including examples of how long they might last and the differences between sabbaticals and career breaks.

  • Type:
    Policies and procedures

    Career breaks policy

    Revised to reflect current practice around career breaks, including examples of how long they might last and the differences between career breaks and sabbaticals.

  • Type:
    Letters and forms

    Letter agreeing to employee's request for sabbatical

    Revised to reflect current practice around sabbaticals, including further details on the terms of employment during sabbaticals, keeping in contact, and the return to work.

  • Type:
    Contract clauses

    Career breaks contract clause

    A model contract clause to set out terms relating to career breaks.

  • Type:
    Letters and forms

    Letter agreeing to employee's request for career break

    A model letter to send to an employee when a career break has been agreed.

  • Type:
    Letters and forms

    Letter declining employee's request for career break

    A model letter to inform an employee that their application for a career break has been rejected.

  • Type:
    Letters and forms

    Letter declining employee's request for sabbatical

    Revised to reflect current practice around sabbaticals, including further examples of why an employer might decline an employee's request for a sabbatical.

  • Type:
    Employment law cases

    Part-time working: 50% pay for 53.5% of full-time hours was less favourable treatment

    In British Airways plc v Pinaud, the Court of Appeal held that a part-time worker's contract requiring her to be available for work 53.5% of the time that a full-time comparator was required to be available for work constituted less favourable treatment because she was paid only 50% of the full-time salary.

  • Type:
    Survey analysis

    Flexible working policies and practice survey 2018

    XpertHR's latest research looks at employers' flexible working policies, examines the key trends in flexible working arrangements and presents the benefits and challenges of putting such provisions into practice.

  • Type:
    Employment law cases

    Part-time workers: Zero hours lecturer could compare himself to permanent full-time lecturer

    In Roddis v Sheffield Hallam University, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) held that a lecturer employed under a zero hours contract was employed under the same type of contract as a permanent full-time lecturer for the purposes of his claim of less favourable treatment under the Part-time Workers (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2000 (SI 2000/1551).