Flexible working

New and updated

• Date:

  31 July 2020

  Type:

  Podcasts and webinars

  Managing your workforce out of lockdown webinar: Varying employment contracts - what you need to know

  Employment lawyer Darren Newman guides us through the process of varying an employee's terms and conditions including the procedure for dismissing and re-engaging an employee, and how to deal with an avalanche of flexible working requests from employees who want to make their lockdown way of working permanent.

• Type:

  Policies and documents

  Coronavirus and workplace closures: Letter inviting employee to meeting to discuss permanent homeworking arrangement

  A model HR letter to invite an employee to a meeting to discuss a change of place of work. Depending on the size and nature of your organisation, cost-saving measures to reduce the need for redundancies could include the closure of your work locations and move to permanent homeworking for your staff.

• Type:

  Policies and documents

  Coronavirus and workplace closures: Letter to employee confirming permanent homeworking arrangement

  A model HR letter to confirm a move to permanent homeworking with an employee. Depending on the size and nature of your organisation, cost-saving measures to reduce the need for redundancies could include the closure of your work locations and move to permanent homeworking for some or all of your staff.

• Date:

  2 July 2020

  Type:

  Law reports

  Age discrimination: Requiring semi-retired dog handler to work full time was discriminatory

  In Broadist v HM Prison Service, an employment tribunal found that the employer's refusal to allow a semi-retired dog handler to remain working on a part-time basis with an alternative dog, after his dog had died, amounted to indirect age discrimination.

• Type:

  FAQs

  Can an employer claim under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme for an employee who was on unpaid leave before the scheme was announced?

• Type:

  Policies and documents

  Letter agreeing to employee's flexible working request

  Updated to cover the scenario where an employee has been working flexibly because of the coronavirus pandemic and is seeking to make this arrangement permanent.

• Type:

  Policies and documents

  Letter outlining compromise arrangement following flexible working request

  Updated to cover the scenario where an employee has been working flexibly because of the coronavirus pandemic and is seeking to make this arrangement permanent.

• Type:

  Policies and documents

  Letter refusing employee's flexible working request

  Updated to cover the scenario where an employee has been working flexibly because of the coronavirus pandemic and is seeking to make this arrangement permanent.

• Type:

  Policies and documents

  Letter responding to employee's appeal against refusal to grant flexible working request

  Updated to cover the scenario where an employee has been working flexibly because of the coronavirus pandemic and is seeking to make this arrangement permanent.

• Type:

  Policies and documents

  Letter upholding employee's appeal against refusal to grant flexible working request

  Updated to cover the scenario where an employee has been working flexibly because of the coronavirus pandemic and is seeking to make this arrangement permanent.