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Flexible working

New and updated

  • Type:
    Employment law guide

    Part-time workers

    Updated to reflect that the Employment Rights (Amendment, Revocation and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2023 came into force on 1 January 2024.

  • Date:
    8 November 2023
    Type:
    Commentary and insights

    Should we raise the minimum wage for workers on zero hours contracts?

    The Workers (Predicable Terms and Conditions) Act 2023 has now received Royal Assent. But will it fix the problem of zero hours contracts and precarious work? Probably not, says XpertHR consultant editor Darren Newman, who casts an eye over Labour's plans for a "New Deal" and points to a forgotten proposal with the potential to make a real difference.

  • Type:
    How to

    How to manage annualised hours contracts

    Reviewed and updated to focus on practical guidance for HR

  • Date:
    6 October 2023
    Type:
    Podcasts and webinars

    Podcast: Flexible working - current obligations and future reforms

    In this edition of the podcast, we are joined by XpertHR senior legal editor Laura Merrylees to answer questions around flexible working reforms in the media and elsewhere recently.

  • Type:
    Contract clauses

    Annualised hours contract clause

    Overhauled and enhanced to provide more comprehensive clauses, which can be included in a contract of employment.

  • Date:
    5 October 2023
    Type:
    Commentary and insights

    Hybrid working - the "new normal": What we found out

    Director of Epic HR Gary Cookson recently delivered a webinar for XpertHR entitled Hybrid working - How to personalise the employee experience. During the session, he asked attendees a number of questions about the realities of the new post-Covid world, which is increasingly characterised by hybrid working arrangements.

  • Type:
    Leading practice guides

    Flexible working: Measuring the impact on your organisation

    In this fourth guide, we examine the importance of evaluating flexible working; the timetable for evaluation; which HR metrics to focus on; and how to measure the impact of flexible working in eight key areas.

  • Date:
    4 September 2023
    Type:
    Commentary and insights

    Flexible working request reforms: A guide to updating your policy

    Forthcoming changes to the law on the right to request flexible working mean that employers will have to amend their flexible working requests policy. We set out nine steps for HR professionals to follow when faced with updating their organisation's policy.

  • Type:
    Letters and forms

    Equality impact assessment form

    A model form to conduct an equality impact assessment on a workplace policy, provision, criterion, practice or activity. The form uses the example of a regular review of an organisation's flexible working requests policy.

  • Date:
    3 July 2023
    Type:
    Podcasts and webinars

    Webinar: Hybrid working - How to personalise the employee experience

    In this webinar we explore how we can: look at hybrid differently in terms of culture, policies, engagement and inclusion not for the many, but for the individual; personalise the hybrid employee experience; and create a hybrid approach that taps into the best of what it could be, and avoids leaving it all to chance.