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- Type:
- Policies and procedures
Updated to reflect the revised Acas code of practice on requests for flexible working.
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- Date:
- 26 March 2024
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- Commentary and insights
With a raft of employment law changes taking effect in April 2024, we provide a final reminder for HR professionals of what their organisation needs to do to comply with the new and amended employment laws. This April, the challenges for HR include: the introduction of carer's leave; reforms to the right to request flexible working; and updated rules on timing and notice to take paternity leave.
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- Type:
- Letters and forms
A model letter to invite an employee to a meeting to discuss their request for flexible working submitted on or after 6 April 2024.
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- Type:
- Letters and forms
A model letter to inform an employee that their flexible working request is invalid because they have already submitted two requests in the previous 12 months or they have another "live" flexible working request that is still being processed.
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- Type:
- Letters and forms
A model letter to respond to an employee who has requested to amend a request for flexible working submitted on or after 6 April 2024.
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- Type:
- Letters and forms
A model letter to inform an employee who has submitted a request for flexible working on or after 6 April 2024 that the request is invalid and the reasons why it is invalid, and to ask them to resubmit the request.
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- Type:
- Letters and forms
Updated to refer to Information Commissioner's Office guidance on information sharing as a result of mental health emergencies at work.
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- Type:
- Training
Enhanced with the addition of a PowerPoint presentation for training purposes.
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- Date:
- 8 March 2024
- Type:
- Commentary and insights
Changes to statutory flexible working rights are due to come into force on 6 April 2024. Given the increased expectation of staff to be able to work flexibly, coupled with the right to request flexible working becoming a day-one right, employers should prepare for an increase in flexible working applications. In this article, we guide HR through the key changes and how employers can prepare.
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- Date:
- 1 March 2024
- Type:
- Podcasts and webinars
The rules around COVID-19 were very clearly drawn in 2020. But what is the state of play now, not just in relation to COVID but to illness in the workplace generally? What should organisations do about employees who are nervous about returning to the workplace? Or about at-risk employees, particularly when infection rates are high? Or about long COVID - is it now treated as a disability?