7. Flexible Working

Employees may benefit from adjustments to their working hours or working patterns which would enable them to more easily balance their commitments to work and family. The Flexible Working legislation allows such requests to be made on the basis of a maximum of one application per year which an employer must seriously consider.

In order to make an application for flexible working, an employee must have been employed by the Company for at least 26 weeks.

Companies do not have to accommodate flexible working requests if such requests would be detrimental to the commercial needs of the business.

An employer may therefore refuse a request for flexible working on one or more of the following grounds:

Burden of additional costs. Detrimental effect on ability...

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Employees may benefit from adjustments to their working hours or working patterns which would enable them to more easily balance their commitments to work and family. The Flexible Working legislation allows such requests to be made on the basis of a maximum of one application per year which an employer must seriously consider.

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