Recent headlines have been dominated by a landmark case involving Nationwide.
In the case, Nationwide were ordered to pay £350,000 in compensation following their failure to adequately deal with a flexible working request.
Does your company have specialist menopause-related policies, and have your staff been trained in how to approach conversations in relation to menopause?
Here at Dawson Radford we recently celebrated 7 years in business. To mark the occasion our founder Jo Dawson put together 7 lessons from 7 years.
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Dealing with flexible working requests is becoming more important than ever for employers.
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Depending on the exact nature and content of the text messages, this will likely fall under either bullying or discrimination/harassment.
The first step, like with any employment issue, is to check your policies and procedures to make sure you handle matters in the way that has been set out in the employment contract and/or employee handbook.
There is no obligation on agreeing to a flexible working request, however, before making any decision, there is a process to follow to ensure you give reasonable consideration to the request.
The first thing to do is work out whether you definitely do need to make anyone redundant.
