The right to request flexible working
[ch 6: page 45]There is still not a right to work flexibly, but an employer is under a statutory duty to seriously consider any application and to provide good reasons for rejecting it.
To be eligible to apply for flexible working, an employee must:
• be an employee;
• have worked for their employer continuously for 26 weeks at the date the application is made, and;
• not have made another application to work flexibly during the past 12 months.
Employees can request:
• a change to the hours they work;
• a change to the times when they are required to work; or
• to work from home.