Dolly Parton’s hit about the ordeal of ‘working nine to five’ is due a rewrite. In our age of Covid we seem to be moving inexorably towards a world of ‘flexible working’.
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has just launched a consultation on the rules over flexible working. At present, you have to have been employed somewhere for 26 weeks before you have the right to request flexible-working arrangements. And you can only make one request every 12 months.
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