We, as a company, have always tried to accommodate any member of staff’s request to change their hours of working.
We have a number of people on varying degrees of part-time hours to fit in with their needs and lifestyles as well as our company needs.
Recently, we have had a spate of people requesting ‘special arrangements’ for temporary periods as well as agreed permanent changes. Things such as working different hours during school half terms and/or increasing to full-time for a week here and there if an ex-partner is taking the kids during a break and changing working days due to appointments. Some of which are at very short notice.
We don’t necessarily have a problem with a lot of these but due to operational reasons, it is not possible to accomodate all requests and we feel the time is right to introduce a company policy on giving notice of a request, how to go about it and of course, reminding that whilst we will consider, it is not a given thing.
Does anyone have a policy they would be willing to share to help us out?
Alison Gray
