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- Date:
- 21 January 2025
- Type:
- Commentary and insights
In the second part of a new series delving into the details of the Employment Rights Bill, we look at the proposed changes to the right to make a flexible working request.
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- Date:
- 3 October 2024
- Type:
- Commentary and insights
The UK Government is seeking to introduce the right to "switch off", which will allow workers to disconnect from work and not be contacted by their employer outside working hours. Labour has indicated that it intends to follow the models in Ireland and Belgium but with the details of the legislation still unclear, what clues can employers glean from these and other countries' approaches to the right to disconnect?
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- Type:
- Leading practice guides
Updated to include information on how flexible working can help enable people with various neurodivergent conditions to participate in the workplace.
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- Type:
- Leading practice guides
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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- Type:
- Policies and procedures
Updated to reflect the revised Acas code of practice on requests for flexible working.
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- Date:
- 5 October 2023
- Type:
- Commentary and insights
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.
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- Type:
- Training
Enhanced with the addition of a PowerPoint presentation for training purposes.
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- Type:
- Leading practice guides
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.
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- Date:
- 4 September 2023
- Type:
- Commentary and insights
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.
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- Type:
- Letters and forms
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.