When can I insist on working from home? [LBC Legal Hour]

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  • Опубліковано 16 лис 2024

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  • @SirD83
    @SirD83 4 дні тому +2

    Sounds like another case of I am used to working in my pyjamas and coming down the stairs two minutes before logging on with the central heating on to me.

  • @DankanCerisolaThe_Police2024
    @DankanCerisolaThe_Police2024 Місяць тому

    You are absolutely brilliant brilliant brilliant.

  • @cheeky_monkey_No1
    @cheeky_monkey_No1 11 місяців тому +1

    wasnt there an update on the flexible working making it a day 1 request and employers were to agree unless it affects business?

    • @pizzaboy4463
      @pizzaboy4463 11 місяців тому

      The right is after 26 weeks. It's a procedural right with no need to justify unless it amounts to indirect sex discrimination or a failure to make reasonable adjustments for a disabled worker.

    • @languageoffootball
      @languageoffootball 9 місяців тому

      Yes I think the day one right to request comes in this year.

  • @harrismazari5484
    @harrismazari5484 28 днів тому

    I work for a great boss, our office has a 3 day work in office policy but she allowed me to come in only 2 days.

  • @roodersclive8654
    @roodersclive8654 Місяць тому +1

    The law has changed since this call I believe?

  • @sammyb99
    @sammyb99 19 годин тому

    So guy worked in office before ? But now can’t work in office ? What’s changed ?

    • @SimonB123
      @SimonB123 4 години тому

      He said it started in 2020 so must be one of the effects of the pandemic - and he’s one of a very large number of people for whom that is the case

  • @coderider3022
    @coderider3022 Рік тому +1

    My hr told me to get the requests from my team, wait 3 months then reject on team work requirements. Dean, move on to another company. If you can work from home, you can do it for another company too.

  • @maccybear8093
    @maccybear8093 Рік тому +15

    The day my company loses its head and says we're going back to the office full-time is the day I'll hand in my notice. Thank god I'm working for decent people now and they've made it clear many times, we are not going back to the office like some donkeys are!

    • @neojng
      @neojng 3 місяці тому +3

      Same here, compnay is doing SO well with flexabile working, eveyones so much more happy and the in office visits are so much more productive.

    • @pottr147
      @pottr147 2 місяці тому

      @@neojng It's not your gift to give.

    • @neojng
      @neojng 2 місяці тому +1

      @@pottr147 wat

    • @pottr147
      @pottr147 2 місяці тому +1

      If you don't own the company, you don't get to decide the practices of the business you work for.

    • @neojng
      @neojng 2 місяці тому +2

      @@pottr147 well you kinda do, I am a shareholder but also the workforce refuse to do something replacing them would be way to costly for the business. We have already hired 3 new devs that left their last business purely because they wanted them back in the office, these new devs have been brilliant and super productive.

  • @jekw23
    @jekw23 Рік тому +1

    If you’re contracted out and there’s a clause to work from the office then that’s it.
    You can argue the right and wrong of it but if it’s mandated then I don’t think you can get around it.

  • @Chris-im3ys
    @Chris-im3ys Рік тому +12

    This comment section is gammon central today. Everybody is frothing at the mouth, angry at the idea that working from home just might be less awful.

    • @nifralo2752
      @nifralo2752 5 місяців тому +5

      Wfh is so isolating. Its not healthy to spend all day in your bed room.

    • @funkknuckle
      @funkknuckle Місяць тому +3

      ​@nifralo2752 in your opinion

    • @shamimanon6591
      @shamimanon6591 Місяць тому

      @@nifralo2752 being around people like you is not healthy.

    • @harrismazari5484
      @harrismazari5484 28 днів тому +2

      @@nifralo2752 Thats so true especially considering your room is in your mum's basement it must get very depressing for you. For others, we have dedicated office space in our houses and loved ones to talk to during breaks.

    • @seyley2901
      @seyley2901 13 днів тому

      ​@harrismazari5484 , Ooh, so you are expecting everyone to afford a multiple room dwelling? Have supporting family members and friends being in the house to give you emotional support? Harris are you a Champagne Socialist that the the left deny, who scream about the housing and the Mental Health Crisis? Or are you a friend of Lord Ali...

  • @goodolekayjay6096
    @goodolekayjay6096 Рік тому +9

    They first 15 seconds tells you everything you need to know about the caller… listen to how he frames his stance.
    Flexibilities we’re offered to people by necessity at the time, but now many are interpreting them as an entitlement!
    It’s the company who principally facilitates the employment opportunity, not the other way round. Employees must adhere to conditions set out by the company, assuming ethical conduct etc, and any resentment should become a catalyst to seek employment elsewhere.
    In the case of this caller, I’d STRONGLY suggest he makes himself as valuable as possible right now as proof readers of formal materials are absolutely at risk of being replaced by AI.

  • @TerryPavlou
    @TerryPavlou 18 днів тому +2

    I don’t get it. Imagine going into work to work

    • @paulreading8980
      @paulreading8980 9 днів тому

      Quite simply because productivity of people “working” from home is abysmal it is commonly abused even to the point where people have got their partners to move their mouse so that the employers monitoring software detects activity. You only need to look at the terrible state of HMRC since their staff stopped turning up to work, good luck getting anyone to pick up a phone and they don’t respond to hand written letters. Good luck with a passport that is not ordered on-line because there are few people turning up to deal with physical requests. This country is going to hell in a hand cart, we need to get everyone back in the office full time and get productivity up.

    • @paulreading8980
      @paulreading8980 9 днів тому

      Also it is not energy efficient. Heating a lighting a single building with densely packed humans is for more efficient that heating 500 homes with people working from homes. There are many studies on this.
      Lastly I can tell you that I live in the Surrey hills and it has been a complete joke here since covid there are hundreds of cyclists on Fridays riding all over the hills, some in organised packs some with friends and nearly all young people in their thirties not retired people or students who are too lazy to get out of bed. These are quite clearly people “working” from home.

  • @mintywebb
    @mintywebb 27 днів тому

    When it says you can in your contract.

  • @thomasdalton1508
    @thomasdalton1508 Рік тому +1

    Wouldn't a failure to consider an application for flexibility fairly and reasonably be a breach of trust and confidence? It seems ridiculous that tribunals don't consider anything other box ticking.

    • @amritlohia8240
      @amritlohia8240 Рік тому +1

      A tribunal doesn't have a general jurisdiction to consider breaches of trust and confidence. It can only consider such breaches through the prism of a claim for constructive dismissal.

    • @thomasdalton1508
      @thomasdalton1508 Рік тому +1

      @@amritlohia8240 Agreed, that would be the route to get it before a tribunal. You could just go to county court with a breach of contract claim, I believe, but that would probably need a lawyer and you would be risking costs.

    • @amritlohia8240
      @amritlohia8240 Рік тому

      @@thomasdalton1508 Yes. Of course in practice, bringing such a breach of contract claim may well provoke a dismissal - ironically, on grounds of breakdown of trust and confidence.

    • @shez4058
      @shez4058 Рік тому

      No, as an employer although must give consideration to a FWR, there is no obligation for them to accept it, if they can show a business need. Unless, the reason you were asking for a FWR was due to a protected characterstic under the EQA 2010 (such as disability) then that request should take form by way of reasonable adjustments and not a FWR.

    • @amritlohia8240
      @amritlohia8240 Рік тому

      @@shez4058 Thomas Dalton's question proposed a failure to give such consideration. It didn't concern any "obligation to accept it".

  • @eccentricity9697
    @eccentricity9697 Рік тому +4

    And this is why I work for myself. My life, of which we only get one, and I live it on my terms.
    Just been living in Thailand and Vietnam for the past 9 months.
    Life is just better when you take full responsibility for every aspect of your life, especially how you make your money.

    • @brianbale9511
      @brianbale9511 Рік тому

      That life style is your choice and its your opinion

    • @eccentricity9697
      @eccentricity9697 Рік тому

      @@brianbale9511 It's brilliant 🙂
      I hear people complaining about their bosses and work colleagues
      I hear people complaining about their job and customers.
      I hear people complaining they aren't paid enough.
      I rarely hear people say they really like or love their job.
      Me and my Partner are living our absolute best lives.
      Loving almost every minute of it.
      When asked how things are going or what it's like working from home or while travelling, we respond life couldn't be better.
      So yes, whilst it may be my opinion, not only does it work for us, but it seems most people are not as fulfilled or as happy as us with their current work situation.

    • @paul8161
      @paul8161 27 днів тому

      ​@brianbale9511 that is his opinion, and his life, it obviously works for them it could work for others to, and his opinion is as valid as yours.

    • @andyptv1996
      @andyptv1996 25 днів тому

      Well good for you, that's the dream. Not all of us have that option.

    • @paul8161
      @paul8161 25 днів тому

      @@andyptv1996 exactly.

  • @DigitalDaffodil
    @DigitalDaffodil Рік тому +2

    You can’t insist anything
    It’s all about what your company wants and where they need you
    I’d you can’t, for a medical reason
    Get a medical note

  • @AlexBell1991
    @AlexBell1991 Рік тому +1

    There always looking for a new job if you aren't happy with it.

  • @Danfrank24
    @Danfrank24 18 днів тому +5

    No wonder the country’s on its arse. Imagine saying on national radio I suffer anxiety when in an office setting. I mean get a grip. Go to work or don’t pal your choice.

  • @originalsuccessjournal8723
    @originalsuccessjournal8723 11 місяців тому

    I will take it inissoles, army, navy or any other collatral at my figer tops. I will take fully paid property, and exclude surfdom. Thank you.

  • @thecamil10
    @thecamil10 Рік тому

    No legal right to appeal a flexible working request, but in general employers allow it.

  • @Asif24960
    @Asif24960 16 днів тому +2

    What a horrible employee. Wouldn’t want to recruit him

  • @holdenmcgroin3995
    @holdenmcgroin3995 Рік тому

    Um

  • @andrewlevett4274
    @andrewlevett4274 Місяць тому +2

    Just grow a pair and go to work!

  • @DigitalDaffodil
    @DigitalDaffodil Рік тому +3

    Go and do your work, at work

  • @daryls43
    @daryls43 9 днів тому

    Who on earth would be a boss, I'm glad I work on a building site, people like these wouldn't last a minute 😂😂

  • @brianbale9511
    @brianbale9511 Рік тому +4

    Stop the 2020 excuses and work in the office its easy pickings sitting in your home feet up 😮😮😮

  • @tracer1127
    @tracer1127 Рік тому +7

    Remember back to when men were men, what a load of snowflakes some of us have become. Dear me it’s embarrassing, the previous generation and the generations before them would never have even thought of some of the crap people come up with today. Get back to work like the rest of us. Never mind lodging an appeal it’s beyond me why they haven’t given you the sack because clearly you are not suitable for the job roll. I suffer with a bad back,aching joints and bad knees, I man up and go to work every day and get on with it.

    • @1471perry
      @1471perry Рік тому +1

      i totally agree with u and i bet u anything he is going to go on sick leave because work is to stressful for him

    • @MrWillyMrBrightside
      @MrWillyMrBrightside Рік тому +13

      Yeah, when men were men! Not whinging about things in UA-cam comments

    • @tracer1127
      @tracer1127 Рік тому +1

      @@1471perry yes it’s funny how you never hear of a self employed person having time off with the reasons as someone who gets paid each week and has sick pay etc.

    • @shamimanon6591
      @shamimanon6591 Місяць тому

      wow who is a big boy? you are! well done!

  • @christophergray1977
    @christophergray1977 Рік тому +6

    Get back to work! What is happening with office workers these days? I’m a gardener and like many others have no choice unlike these snowflakes who appear to be frightened of their shadows.

    • @MrWillyMrBrightside
      @MrWillyMrBrightside Рік тому +2

      Surely if you're a gardener you deal with a lot more snowflakes? Well during winter, that's for sure. Don't tend to get much snow in the summer I'll tell you that for free

    • @barryboom717
      @barryboom717 Рік тому

      We'll get an office job then and stop moaning in the UA-cam comments about home workers you snowflake.

  • @Nightstalker321
    @Nightstalker321 Рік тому +10

    Dean needs to go down to B&Q and see if he can buy a backbone or pop down to boots and buy a load of tampons

    • @richardhands904
      @richardhands904 Рік тому +6

      You need to go pick up a pack of gammon, although I suspect you already have that in droves.

    • @P.G.Wodelouse
      @P.G.Wodelouse Рік тому

      @@richardhands904 Nice racist language you lot never fail in your bigotry

    • @illnamethisaccountlater4762
      @illnamethisaccountlater4762 10 місяців тому +2

      Such a random comment, that is irrelevant

    • @Danfrank24
      @Danfrank24 18 днів тому +1

      @@richardhands904Dean just wants to be at home bollocks he’s got anxiety from being in the office he’s frightened of work nothing else.