{"id":71797,"date":"2016-06-30T09:30:08","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T09:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=dbd7d469a5626165640502c2a7ec8f11"},"modified":"2016-06-30T09:30:08","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T09:30:08","slug":"news-story-two-years-since-flexible-working-extended-to-all-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=71797","title":{"rendered":"News story: Two years since flexible working extended to all employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Around 20 million people in Great Britain can now request flexible working, thanks to the government\u2019s extension of the right to all employees which came into force 2 years ago today (30 June 2016).<\/p>\n<p>Flexible working gives employees and employers a chance to try new ways of working, which will improve productivity and help more people to remain in work.<\/p>\n<p>Two years ago, the government extended the right to apply for flexible working to all employees, as long as they have at least 26 weeks\u2019 service with their current employer.<\/p>\n<p>Before 30 June 2014, the right only applied to parents of children under the age of 17 years  (or 18 years if the child was disabled) and certain carers.<\/p>\n<p>There are many types of flexible working, such as job sharing, working from home, working full-time but over fewer days, flexitime and part-time working.<\/p>\n<p>Requests must be considered and decided upon by your employer within 3 months of the receipt of the request.<\/p>\n<p>Employers must have a sound business reason for rejecting any request.<\/p>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/flexible-working\/overview\">Find out more about flexible ways of working and how to make an application<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been 2 years since the government extended the right to apply for flexible working to all employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71797"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}