Flexible work (182 items)

In many hybrid workplaces, employees' efforts to demonstrate progress and presenteeism end up thwarting both, an HR leader says.

An employer had reasonable business grounds to refuse an employee's flexible work request, given her customer service work couldn't be performed from home or "behind locked doors", the Fair Work Commission has found.

Job-share requests made by two employees over 55 lacked the required nexus with their age to be validly made, the Fair Work Commission has ruled, dismissing the disputes.

There is no need for the Clerks Award to contain a specific term compelling employers to allow employees to work from home, but it should contain a 'right to request' term, the Fair Work Commission has found, in its much-anticipated decision on the matter.

Abruptly ending an employee's informal flexible working arrangement caused her to suffer a psychological injury, and wasn't 'reasonable management action', a tribunal has ruled.

An employer was wrong to consider its longstanding mobile phone policy wasn't a "working arrangement" that could be the subject of a flexible work request, the Fair Work Commission has found.

Pre-existing flexible work arrangements that gave other workers Fridays off meant it was reasonable for an employer to refuse a new request involving that particular day, the Fair Work Commission has found.

A hybrid working guideline that allowed employees to work from home up to three days a week was "on one view generous", the Fair Work Commission has found, in a flexible work dispute.

An employee's request for more working-from-home days was inconsistent with his employer's desire for knowledge sharing and team connection, the Fair Work Commission has accepted, in arbitrating a flexible work dispute.

An employee who has worked exclusively from home since the first COVID lockdowns has been ordered to return to the office once a fortnight, with the Fair Work Commission accepting the employer's arguments for requiring her attendance.