Thread: Staff to gain right to request flexible working from first day
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Old 03-10-2021, 12:02   #42
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Re: Staff to gain right to request flexible working from first day
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Originally Posted by Hugh View Post
If there’s no formal procedure/documentation, what happens when the manager moves on, and forgets to tell his successor about all the numerous informal agreements they’ve made?

Anyway, flexible working has to be equitable, so you can’t have some managers in a company deciding they’re not going to allow it (not for reasons based on business reasons, but they just don’t like the idea), and other managers allowing it because they believe it works; this would be disadvantaging some employees for no reason other than personal bias about flexible working.
Where did I say that the contractual change should not be in writing?

What I am arguing is that an employer really should not be legally required to have set procedures to process requests.

All that should be required is an employee request, manager agrees or not, and confirmation in writing. There is no need to make it more complicated than that.
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