In some cases, employees may request (or employers may offer) fully remote work. In this case, the employee never has to work from the office. This should be clearly stated in their contract. This differs from the option to work from home, where it generally isn’t specified in the cont...
UK legislationdefinesflexible working as “a way of working that suits an employee’s needs, for example having flexible start and finish times, or working from home.” Significantly, the law applies to all employees, not just parents and other caregivers. Furthermore, employers must address each...
Legislation passed last month gave that benefit to workers at companies with fewer than 500 employees, which left out millions of parents. Congress is considering expanding it to cover the majority of workers, according to advocates, and parents should pressure their representatives to ensure it's ...
Tenants are experiencing an increase in landlords saying they don’t want them to work from home whilst renting their property. In a report from The Independent, which found little legislation to protect tenants from the practice, which is...
Shelter’s legal team indicated that landlords are able to restrict working from home under the current legislation. They told theMetro: “We might consider the restriction to be unreasonable or unfair, but the landlord will no doubt argue that they have their reasons for imposing this condition...
He said that the local people's congresses and their standing committees should carry out concrete work related to legislation, supervision and other deputy-related responsibilities to better serve the reform and development causes of their respective localities. ...
The new rules are a response to the trend of more staff working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic, Portugal’s Socialist government said. It said it sees benefits in working from home but wanted to adapt labor legislation to it. ...
This paper discusses the last area, namely legislation governing time off work for family care, more specifically an employee's legal right to request flexible working arrangements such as working from home, flexible working hours etc. Other provisions for time off for family care include leave ...
Several other countrieslook set to follow suit, with Germany among the first to introduce legislation to give workers the right to request home working. If passed, employers will have to provide a valid reason if they refuse such a request, and The Netherlands looks set to introduce simil...
•Working from home on a regular basis: workers regularly spend time working from home.•Mobile working/teleworking: this permits employees to work all or part of their working week at a location remote from the employer's workplace.•Career breaks: career breaks, or sabbaticals, are ...