Tag Archives: flexible working

Party politics – what is Plan B for employers? (UK)

So as Boris sits in his bunker and works on Plan C (early draft – “Go to Sardinia. Don’t come back“), employers in England are confronting the shoulder-sagging knowledge that all their prior work on cajoling people back to the office has been comprehensively torpedoed by Plan B. However, leaving aside the obviously deeply unworthy … Continue Reading

Future of the Workplace webinar 18 March – follow-up questions answered, Part 3 (UK)

Here are answers to two more of the questions which came up at our webinar last week, this time dealing with employee resistance to workplace Covid testing and the wisdom or otherwise of agreeing to post-lockdown WFH without formal changes to terms of employment. If an employee refuses to be tested at work, how should … Continue Reading

“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so” – who is responsible for overtime working?

Way back in, ooh, last month we reported on Carreras –v- UFPS, a case on the extent to which an employer’s expectation of overtime working could be the basis of a disability discrimination claim even where it was the employee’s conduct which had generated it https://www.employmentlawworldview.com/when-overtime-goes-bad-employers-duties-to-clarify-expectations-for-disabled-staff/. As if to shed some further light on that … Continue Reading

New UK Flexible Working regime – the word on the street

Depending on what you read and who you believe, today’s opening-up of eligibility to request flexible working to all employees with six months’ service or more will be:    (i)         the unleashing of an unstoppable tide of cost, inconvenience and Tribunal claims; or   (ii)        no big deal.   Perhaps by the time you read this, there will … Continue Reading

Contradictory Acas guidance mars introduction of new UK flexible working regime

Braced for Monday?  D-Day on the new Flexible Working rules has finally arrived, and with it, some new questions for employers.   Whether or not you expect waves of new flexible working applicants storming up your company’s beaches first thing on Monday morning may depend on the nature of your business. A CIPD survey in 2012 … Continue Reading

Brevity not the soul of wit for new Acas Code on Flexible Working

Acas has now issued its draft Code of Practice on “Handling requests in a reasonable manner to work flexibly” (sic).  This anticipates the coming into force on 30 June this year of a general eligibility to request flexible working and the replacement of the old rigid procedures with a blanket obligation on the employer to … Continue Reading
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