Flexible Working
under 16 or a disabled child under 18 in receipt of disability living allowance and from 30 June 2014 to all employees with at least 26 weeks service, regardless of whether they have caring responsibilities and the procedure below was replaced with a simple need for the employer to ‘act reasonably’. Until 30 June 2014 the ‘relationship’ criterion requires the person to be cared for to be: • married to, or the partner or civil partner of the employee or a near relative* • neither of the above, but lives at the same address as the employee of the employee • 18 or over. COPYRIGHT © 2021 THE CHARTERED INSTITUTE OF PAYROLL PROFESSIONALS *’Near relative’ means parents, parents in-law, adult child, adopted adult child, siblings (including sibling in-laws), uncles, aunts, grandparents and step relatives. At the same time the deadline for parents to make a request to work flexibly was reduced from a 14-day deadline to the day before the child’s relevant birthday (i.e. six or eighteen). Employees making such requests must have 26 weeks’ service at the date of the request. In April 2019 a private members bill was introduced to parliament in an attempt to improve the terms of flexible working but failed to complete its passage through parliament. Scope of a request Eligible employees will be able to request: • a change to their working hours • a change to their working times • to work from home. Flexible working covers such arrangements as annualised hours, compressed hours, flexi-time, home-working, job-sharing, self-rostering, shift-working, staggered hours and term-time working. Eligibility In order to make a request an individual must until 29th June 2014: • be an employee • have parental responsibility, this can include foster parents and same sex couples, for a child under 16, or under 18 in the case of a disabled child. • have worked with their employer continuously for 26 weeks at the date the application is made • make the application no later the day before the child’s 16th birthday or 18th birthday. Prior to the 1st April 2007 the deadline period was 14 days in the case of a disabled child. • have, or expect to have, responsibility for the child’s upbringing • be making the application to enable them to care for the child • not be an agency worker • not be a member of the armed forces • not have made another application to work flexibly during the past 12 months. No printing, copying or reproduction permitted. Procedure Prior to 30th June 2014, after the employee made a considered application in writing (limited
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