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The Law on Flexible Working
2. Who Qualifies?
Parents or carers requesting flexible working under the statutory right must fulfil certain criteria.
2.1 The employee must:
- Be the mother, father, adopter, guardian or foster parent of the child in question.
- Be the spouse, partner, civil partner or relative, or live at the same address.
- Have responsibility, or expect to have responsibility, for bringing up or caring for the adult or child.
- Make the application as a means of enabling them to care for the child.
- Have worked for you continuously for at least 26 weeks before making the application.
- Have made no other application in the preceding 12 months.
- Be willing to agree a change in their working pattern, with a corresponding drop in pay if necessary. You can agree that it should only be a temporary or transitional change.
2.2 If the employee is requesting flexible working in order to look after a child, the child must be 16 or under, or under 18 in the case of a child with disabilities.
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