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Overview of Flexible Working

Overview of Flexible Working. Elspeth Wedgwood. University policy. Eligibility Care for children Care for disabled children Care for adults Other One application in a 12 month period Employed continuously for 26 weeks Change is permanent. requests. Types of Request:

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Overview of Flexible Working

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  1. Overview of Flexible Working Elspeth Wedgwood

  2. University policy • Eligibility • Care for children • Care for disabled children • Care for adults • Other • One application in a 12 month period • Employed continuously for 26 weeks • Change is permanent

  3. requests • Types of Request: • Change to hours worked • Change to times required to work • Change to location of work • Examples: • Part time Job share • Compressed hours 9 day fortnight • Annualised hours term time working • Home working mobile working • Varied start/finish times flexi time

  4. Process for dealing with requests • Informal requests • Formal requests • http://www.docs.csg.ed.ac.uk/humanresources/policies/flexible_working_policy.pdf

  5. Grounds for rejecting a request • Burden of additional costs • Detrimental effect on ability to meet customer demand • Inability to reorganise work among existing staff • Inability to recruit additional staff • Detrimental impact on quality • Detrimental impact on performance • Insufficiency of work during periods employee proposes to work • Planned structural changes

  6. Requests – non standard • Early requests - maternity • Out of core hours • Lack of supervision • Home working • Limited / no breaks • Compressed hours

  7. COMMON CONCERNS • Creating a precedent by saying ‘yes’ • Competing requests • Consistency among managers • Legal risks if you reject a request • Duration of flexible requests

  8. update • 2014 – Rights for all employees to request flexible working • 2015 – Flexible maternity leave

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