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Click to show the answer Do employees have the automatic right to change to a more flexible working pattern?

Click to show the answer Which employees are eligible for the statutory right to request flexible working?

Click to show the answer Can an employer safely ignore a request for a flexible pattern of working made by an employee who does not qualify for the statutory right to request flexible working?

Click to show the answer How should an employer respond to a request for flexible working?

Click to show the answer How should employers deal with requests for flexible working that are not made under the flexible working provisions, for example where an employee fails to follow the prescribed procedure or is ineligible to make a request?

Click to show the answer Is there any right of appeal where an employer rejects an application for flexible working?

Click to show the answer If an employer has previously accepted requests for flexible working from female employees, and receives a request from a male employee that it does not want to accommodate, what are the risks of refusing that request?

Click to show the answer In what circumstances can an employer reject a request for flexible working?

Click to show the answer In what circumstances can an employer regard a request for flexible working as having been withdrawn?

Click to show the answer Can an employer withdraw from a flexible working agreement if the arrangements are no longer in its interests?

Click to show the answer Can an employee make as many requests for flexible working as he or she wishes?

Click to show the answer If a flexible working request is granted, can the employee request another change to working patterns at a later date?

Click to show the answer Where an employer accepts an employee's application to change from full-time to part-time work must it permit a change back to full-time work if the employee later requests this?

Click to show the answer How close to a child's 17th birthday can an application for flexible working be made?

Click to show the answer Is an employee who is requesting flexible working required to demonstrate that the child or adult in relation to whom the application is being made requires a particular level of care?

Click to show the answer In relation to the statutory right to request flexible working, how is "relative" defined?

Click to show the answer Do adoptive parents and legal guardians qualify for the right to request flexible working?

Click to show the answer Do grandparents have any right to paid or unpaid leave to spend time with their grandchildren?

Click to show the answer Where an employee who is about to go on maternity leave requests that she return on reduced hours, is the employer under any obligation to consider her request at that point?

Click to show the answer Is an employee who is shortly to foster a child entitled to paid time off for this purpose?

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