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Flexi working request denied !!
I have to return to work in a couple of months and I put in a request for reduced hours. I would work 29.5 instead of 35 so it's not even a whole day less. But it would mean 1 full day and a half out of teh office but longer hrs the remaining days. they denied my request. Apparently it's too busy for me to be out a full day and I'd need to be in the office for at least a half day every day. I travel and hr to and from work so it's just a pain in the bum to go all that way just to work 3.5hrs.
I'm so fed up, there are other people that work reduced hrs and have a full day out of office but apparently it is busier now than when they had it approved. I'm waiting for HR to send me the flexi working police but wondered if anyone else had advice or smiliar probs. S x
I'm so fed up, there are other people that work reduced hrs and have a full day out of office but apparently it is busier now than when they had it approved. I'm waiting for HR to send me the flexi working police but wondered if anyone else had advice or smiliar probs. S x
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I hope you manage to get something sorted
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I can't afford to not go back but it galls me that if they don't agree the reduced hours I requested I will basically be working 5 days to pay for someone else to look after my baby!
I have scoured all the small print in our company's policy and apparently I only have the right to return to my job if I go back exactly the hours I left, and if they argue that there is a detriment to the business then they don't have to agree me anything at all!
I really hope you come to some compromise with them ... and fingers crossed for me!!
Clare & Harry x
sorry to hear your flexi request was denied.
Also, sorry not ignoring you i just dont get much time to come on here any more now im back at work - most days i feel like ill meet myself coming back im that busy
my initial request was denied too, with no discussion or attempt to compromise or suggest alternatives, so I said fine Im going to appeal and Im going to bring the union.
At that point they panicked and back pedalled furiously (!) and I got to have my first meeting over again, with a real discussion about how we could both compromise a bit to find any way to make it successful.
Upshot is, for a three month trial I work 4 days from 9-4.30 taking a half hour lunch instead of an hour so they still get a full days worth of work out of me when i am there. So far it seems to be okay, I am definitely making sure I keep notes of good things I have done, things outside of my job remit, so I can really argue in September (at the end of the trial) that it works otherwise I dont know what Ill do.
Like Teabag said they arent obliged to give you anything other than the contract you left on, although your company policy should set out exactly the reasons that a request can be denied for.
Might be worth speaking to your union (if you have one) I found ours very helpful information wise, even though I didnt need them as the mention of it must have showed I meant business
Good luck with your appeal
Clare & Harry x
So far it's not been an issue and I've not been chasing up the waiting list for a nursey place. I'm hoping that if I can do the job competantly then I'll have a better case to argue with and involve the Union as Clare suggests.
Mind you we're being resturctured and I might be made redundant so it might all be irrelevant anyway !! S x