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Flexible Working, Parental Leave and Time off for Dependants

Flexible working has become a key strategy in the recruitment and retention of employees. Requests for Time off for Dependants and Parental leave have been under the employment microscope recently with case law emphasizing the importance of employers dealing with requests in the correct manner. The seminar will focus on compliance with legislation and best practice for requests for leave.

Objectives

By the end of the programme participants will be able to:

• Handle a request for flexible working
• Objectively review a request for flexible working
• Fairly reject a request for flexible working
• Handle a request for time off for dependants
• Handle a request for parental leave

Content

Flexible Working 

• Who is entitled to request flexible working
• How to deal with an application
• Conducting a request for flexible working meeting
• Making a decision regarding a flexible working request
• Avoiding Discrimination when dealing with flexible working requests
• Examples of flexible Working Options

Time off for Dependants

• Who is entitled to this?
• How should this be recorded?
• Avoiding Discrimination

Parental Leave

• Who is entitled to this?
• What leave are employees entitled to?
• The Fallback Parental Leave Scheme
• Keeping records of parental leave
• Refusing Parental Leave
• Employee Rights & Obligations during and after parental leave
• Returning to Work after Parental Leave