Employment Relations (Flexible Working) Act 2023 – This extends the rights of employees to request flexible working from the provisions already in place. Employees will have a day one right to make a request (rather than after six months of employment) and be able to make two requests a year (instead of one). Employers will have the right to decline the request for a valid business reason but will have less time to give the response – two months instead of three. The need for employees to explain the effect of the proposed change or how that should be dealt with has also been removed. This will come into force on 6 April 2024.

In this episode we explore these changes in further detail and the impact it will have in the workplace