Government watchdog recommends every job should offer flexible working

The Equality and Human Rights Commission has recently recommended that every job should be advertised as available for flexible working, a recent news report has revealed. The Equality and Human Rights Commission has recently recommended that every job should be advertised as available for flexible working, a recent news report has revealed.

Employees with 26 weeks’ service have the statutory right to request flexible working, whichever they reason. However, it is possible to refuse a flexible working request but the reason for refusal must be based on your business requirements rather than anything to do with the reasons given by the employee.

The grounds on which a request can be refused are prescribed by law meaning that if the reason does not fall into that group, it will not be a valid refusal.

Some of the valid reasons include:
– the burden of additional costs;

– being unable to re-organise work among existing staff or

– the result of approving the request causing a negative impact on quality, performance or ability to meet customer demand.

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Our specific position within this market segment, as well as proven experience in the field enables us to thoroughly customize our systems in order to meet all of your requirements.
The Smart Card Time & Attendance recording workstation incorporates such features as job booking, job costing, labour hours analysis and security management.

If you’d like to find out more about the Time and Attendance solutions supplied by Time & Attendance UK, please contact us and one of our specialists will be more than happy to answer all of your questions and queries.