Up to 20 million people can now request flexible hours
Working laws have now changed in the UK, so everyone with a job has the right to ask for flexible hours.
Previously only carers and those looking after children could ask for it.
Under the new rules, any employee who has worked with their organisation for at least 26 weeks will have the right to ask their employer to change their working patterns.
Twenty million people now have the right to ask to work flexibly.
But how do you go about approaching your boss about working flexible hours?
The responsibility is on you to make the best possible case to your employer and this new law change means your employer must take it seriously and must consider your request properly.
An employer isn't there to judge why you want to request flexible working pattern.
It is more about whether they can accommodate your request and if it will be better for you and still workable for the business.
Acas, which gives advice to employers and employees, has these top tips.
1. Put your request in writing
Make sure you present a clear argument, including the benefits for the business.
Be as specific as possible about what you're asking for and include proposed changes to hours, times or place of work or different working patterns.
2. Talk about the benefits your request will have on the business
You're more likely to be successful if you have considered how any contract change will affect your role and what impact it will have on the business.
For example, if you work in a bar then a request to have all the evenings off may not work but you might want to work longer one day and have one evening off at a time someone else works.
3. It is often better to sit down with your employer
Talk through your request as a discussion, which may reveal new information or where adaptations might be possible.
An employer may not want to lose you from their business so will be likely to help.
4. Suggest a trial
If you think your boss is unsure then suggest a trial period of say two months.
If it works out then you keep your arrangements.
If it doesn't then you revert to your current conditions.
5. You can only make one application within a 12-month period
Requests and appeals must be considered and decided upon within three months of the receipt of the request.
Requests should be in writing stating from the date of the request and you must say whether any previous application has been made and the date of that application.
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