Passed by the UK parliament on 14 July, the Employment Relations (Flexible Working) Act was promulgated during the summer. The law allows employees to submit two requests for flexible working to their company per year, as opposed to just one. However, it does not provide the right to flexible working from the first day of employment, despite numerous promises by the government.
Within a year – the estimated period of application of this new law – employees in the UK will be able to make two requests to their employer for flexible working over a 12-month period. With the term “flexible working”, the government refers to remote work, job sharing, flexitime, compressed hours, annualised hours and staggered hours. Employers meanwhile will have only two months to respond to such requests, compared with three months previously. Before rejecting such a request, managers will
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