Flexible working

New and updated

• Type:

  Policies and documents

  Form for employee to submit flexible working request

  Updated to take account of the General Data Protection Regulation, in force from 25 May 2018.

• Type:

  Policies and documents

  Job-sharers' contract

  Updated to highlight the impact of the General Data Protection Regulation in force from 25 May 2018, on this document.

• Type:

  Policies and documents

  Part-time worker's holiday contract clause

  Updated to include information on the ECJ decision in The Sash Window Workshop, in which a worker was entitled to carry over paid annual leave where he had not been given the opportunity to take it.

• Date:

  1 May 2017

  Type:

  Law reports

  Case round-up

  Kirsti Laird is senior associate at Charles Russell Speechlys. She rounds up the latest rulings.

• Date:

  1 April 2017

  Type:

  Law reports

  Case round-up

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

• Type:

  FAQs

  How should employers include bonuses paid to part-time employees when calculating their gender bonus gap?

• Date:

  16 January 2017

  Type:

  Law reports

  Homeworking employee not unlawfully discriminated against by requirement to arrange childcare

  This employment tribunal held, in White v Propharma Group MIS Ltd, that the employer had not indirectly discriminated against a female employee by requiring her to remove potential interruptions while working at home by arranging childcare.

• Date:

  1 October 2016

  Type:

  Law reports

  Case round-up

  David Malamatenios is partner at Colman Coyle solicitors. He rounds up the latest rulings.

• Date:

  6 September 2016

  Type:

  Law reports

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

  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.

• Date:

  6 September 2016

  Type:

  Law reports

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

  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.