Flexible Working April 2024
In this section
- 12. Informing the Employee of the Outcome
- 13. Trial Periods
- 14. Business Grounds for Refusing a Request
- 15. Appeal
- 16. Informing the Employee of the Outcome
- 17. Declined Applications
- 18. Extension of Time Limits
- 19. Withdrawal of an Application
- 20. Ensuring Equality of Opportunity
- Appendix 1
- Appendix 2
Appendix 1
Examples of working arrangements/patterns which can be requested under the right to request flexible working are listed below:
Annualised hours – working time organised based on the number of hours to be worked over a year rather than a week.
Compressed hours – total hours which can be worked over a shorter period e.g. full weekly hours being worked over 4 days instead of 5.
Flexi time – choice of actual working hours outside certain core times.
Home working – not necessarily on a full-time basis but allows for time to be divided between home and office base. A risk assessment of the activities undertaken will be required in advice of this pattern of work being undertaken.
Job sharing – typically when two people are employed on a part-time basis but working together to cover one post.
Shift working – gives scope to open longer hours and for employees to have either set or different hours of work per week.
Staggered hours – different start and finish times at different times of the day.
Term time working – allows for unpaid leave of absence during the school holidays.