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@Imogen ah im glad yours went smoothly. yeah I don't think the original reason was good enough I asked for a job share they said we wouldn't know who was doing the job if I went from 5 to 3 when I stated the exact days I would be working.
In theory you need a good reason but in practice unfortunately it’s far too easy to reject. The fair reasons for refusal are too broad and any employer can quote any one of them to fit their agenda. Any of the first 6 they could use against a job share: 1. The burden of additional costs 2. An inability to reorganise work amongst existing staff 3. An inability to recruit additional staff 4. A detrimental impact on quality 5. A detrimental impact on performance 6. Detrimental effect on ability to meet customer demand 7. Insufficient work for the periods the employee proposes to work 8. Planned structural changes to the business I’ve worked in HR for 13 years now and am anxious about my own request.
@Emma is it right that after every proposal they want to gave another meeting I've tried to meet them half way so thought it should just be an acceptance email now
I requested flexible working hours - to go from 5 days down to 3 days. And it was approved. Theu have to state why they can't approve it etc. And the government has nit long announced something for working parents returning to work about flexible working hours. I got a letter in the post about it a couple of months ago. They would have to have a very strong reason to not approve flexible working hours