Flexible working

New and updated

• 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.

• Type:

  Policies and documents

  Letter rejecting 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 responding 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.

• Date:

  8 June 2020

  Type:

  Commentary and analysis

  Lifting the lockdown: Permanent homeworking arrangements

  Many organisations moved to large-scale homeworking overnight when coronavirus (COVID-19) lockdown arrangements were introduced. But as governments ease restrictions, some are now actively considering whether or not the arrangements could be made permanent.

• Type:

  Policies and documents

  Temporary homeworking policy during coronavirus pandemic

  A model policy to set out the arrangements for employees working from home on a temporary basis during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.

• Type:

  Policies and documents

  Coronavirus (COVID-19): Letter highlighting how homeworking employees can look after their mental health

  Updated to reflect that some workers are being asked to continue homeworking while others are starting to return to the workplace.

• Type:

  Policies and documents

  Homeworking health and safety risk assessment form for remote/hybrid worker

  A model form to enable a line manager to record a health and safety risk assessment with an employee who is working from home for all or some of their working week.

• Type:

  How to

  How to manage homeworkers

  Updated to reflect an increase in the tax-free sum employers can pay to employees for household expenses without the need for evidence of expenditure.

• Type:

  Policies and documents

  Coronavirus (COVID-19): Letter outlining flexibility for employees with caring responsibilities who are working from home

  A model letter to set out your approach to enabling employees who have caring responsibilities to work flexibly while they are working from home.