Flexible working

New and updated

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  Leading practice guides

  Flexible working: What strategy employers can adopt

  Updated to reflect changes to the statutory right to request flexible working process in force from 6 April 2024, and the impact on strategies leading employers can adopt.

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  FAQs

  Where an employee about to go on maternity leave requests to return on reduced hours, must the employer consider their request at that point?

  Updated to reflect changes to the right to request flexible working in place from 6 April 2024, including that the employer must respond within two months.

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  How to

  How to manage homeworkers

  Updated to reflect that the right to request flexible working is a day-one right from 6 April 2024.

• Type:

  FAQs

  Where a statutory application for flexible working is acceptable as it stands, is the employer obliged to arrange a meeting to discuss the request?

  Updated to reflect changes to the right to request flexible working in place from 6 April 2024, including that the employer must respond within two months. 

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  FAQs

  Can employees make as many requests for flexible working as they wish?

  Updated to reflect that, from 6 April 2024, employees can make two flexible working requests in any 12-month period.

• Type:

  FAQs

  Which employees are eligible for the statutory right to request flexible working?

  Updated to reflect that the right to request flexible working is a day-one right from 6 April 2024.

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  FAQs

  How should an employer respond to a request for flexible working?

  Updated to reflect changes to the process for dealing with statutory flexible working requests, in place from 6 April 2024.

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  FAQs

  Is there any right of appeal where an employer rejects an application for flexible working?

  Updated to reflect that, from 6 April 2024, employers must inform the employee of their decision on a flexible working request within two months.

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  FAQs

  If an employee withdraws their statutory application for flexible working can they then make another request?

  Updated to reflect that, from 6 April 2024, employees can make two statutory flexible working requests in any 12-month period.

• Type:

  FAQs

  Can an employer use a trial period to test whether a proposed flexible working arrangement would work?

  Updated to reflect that the time limit for responding to flexible working requests made on or after 6 April 2024 is reduced to two months.