All items: Right to request flexible working

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  Bryan v Corporate Advertising Ltd ET/2105111/10 (1 report relating to this case)

  • £3,000 penalty for small employer that failed to follow flexible-working procedure

    Date:

    27 July 2011

    In a decision that may appear harsh, the employment tribunal penalised the employer almost £3,000 for failing to follow the statutory right to request flexible working procedure to the letter, even though the managing director may have been distracted because he was dealing with possible redundancies at the same time.

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  Commotion Ltd v Rutty [2006] IRLR 171 EAT (2 reports relating to this case)

  • Statutory grievance procedure/flexible working: Formal application for flexible working was step-one grievance

    Date:

    3 March 2006

    In Commotion Ltd v Rutty, the EAT holds that it was open to the employment tribunal to find that an employee's formal application under the right to request flexible working satisfied step one of the statutory grievance procedure where it was presented after the refusal of an informal flexible working request.

  • Case round-up: Statutory grievance procedures

    Date:

    31 January 2006

    This week's case round-up from Eversheds, covering statutory grievance procedures.

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  Grimmer v KLM Cityhopper UK [2005] IRLR 596 EAT (1 report relating to this case)

  • Points of procedure

    Date:

    30 December 2005

    A review of recent significant cases on practice and procedure in the tribunals, EAT, Court of Appeal and Court of Session.

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  Singh v Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust EAT/0027/16 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Case round-up

    Date:

    1 April 2017

    Chris Cook is a partner and Keely Rushmore is a senior associate at SA Law. They round up the latest rulings.

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  Smith v Gleacher Shacklock LLP ET/2202747/2015 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Flexible working: employer successfully defends policy that administrative staff work full time

    Date:

    6 September 2016

    This employment tribunal held that it was not indirect sex discrimination for a small investment banking firm to require a single-parent mother to work full time as an executive secretary.

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  Solicitors Regulation Authority v Mitchell EAT/0497/12 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Flexible working: withdrawal of homeworking arrangement constituted direct sex discrimination

    Date:

    28 February 2014

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that an employer's false explanation given for the withdrawal of a flexible working arrangement in evidence during a tribunal hearing reversed the burden of proof in a direct sex discrimination claim.

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  Whiteman v CPS Interiors Ltd and others ET/2601103/2015 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Flexible working: new mother's rejected homeworking request handled in a "reasonable manner"

    Date:

    6 September 2016

    This employment tribunal held that an employer properly handled a new mother's rejected flexible working request to work from home primarily in the evenings.

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  Wolstencroft v Waste Recycling Group Ltd ET/1312573/2009 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Manager's mishandling of flexible working request led to constructive dismissal

    Date:

    2 September 2010

    A manager's disastrous mishandling of an application for flexible working, from an employee who had returned from maternity leave, meant that she resigned and successfully claimed constructive dismissal.