Right to request flexible working

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  Employment law cases

  Flexible working: employer successfully defends policy that administrative staff work full time

  This employment tribunal held that it was not indirect sex discrimination for a small investment banking firm to require a single-parent mother to work full time as an executive secretary.

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  FAQs

  Must an employee provide a reason when making a statutory request for flexible working?

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  FAQs

  What should an employer do if it receives more than one flexible working request and cannot accommodate them all?

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  FAQs

  If an employer agrees to a flexible working request, does it have to issue a new contract of employment to the employee?

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  FAQs

  What tribunal claims might an employee bring where the employer has failed to consider their request for flexible working?

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  FAQs

  Are agency workers eligible to make a statutory flexible working request?

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  FAQs

  What are the risks for an employer of refusing a request for flexible working from a male employee, when female employees' requests have previously been accepted?

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  FAQs

  What should an employer do if an employee raises a complaint about the way in which their statutory flexible working request has been handled?

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  Employment law cases

  Flexible working: withdrawal of homeworking arrangement constituted direct sex discrimination

  The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that an employer's false explanation given for the withdrawal of a flexible working arrangement in evidence during a tribunal hearing reversed the burden of proof in a direct sex discrimination claim.

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  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

  James Buckle, Gerri Hurst, Joelle Parkinson, Chris McAvoy and Helen Samuel are associate solicitors at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. They round up the latest rulings.