Family Friendly Policy?

[SexyLegs]

Has someone got a copy of, or can someone explain RM's Family Friendly Policy???

[floydy]

We have been told there aint gonna be one.....

[number one]

Its a bit long winded but here you go.........................

On 6 April 2003, the UK Government will bring into force new employment legislation on flexible working. The provisions governing these changes are set out in the Employment Act 2002, which received Royal Assent on 8 July 2002.

To be eligible to make a request for flexible work, a person must:
a. be an employee
b. have a child under 6 (or a disabled child under 18)
c. have worked for at least 26 weeks prior to making the application
d. have not made a similar request within 12 months

A request for flexible working may include:
a. flexitime
b. job-sharing
c. working from home
d. staggered, compressed or annualised hours

An employer is required to arrange a meeting with the employee to discuss an application for flexible working within 28 days of receiving the request and must provide written reasons for accepting or refusing the request within 14 days of that meeting.

If refused, the written notification from the employer must include:
a. the business grounds for refusing the application
b. sufficient explanation why the grounds apply in the circumstances
c. details of the employees right to appeal

Acceptable business grounds for refusing a request may include:
a. burden of additional costs
b. detrimental effect on ability to meet customer demand
c. inability to reorganise work amongst existing staff
d. inability to recruit additional staff
e. detrimental impact on quality
f. detrimental impact on performance
g. insufficiency of work during periods the employee proposes to work
h. planned structural changes The Sex Discrimination Act prohibits direct or indirect discrimination in employment. Indirect discrimination may be established if a procedure or decision is such that it will affect a considerably larger proportion of women than men. As many of the applicants for flexible working hours will be women it is expected that refusal to accept such applications will give rise to claims of indirect sex discrimination (an issue which the Government acknowledges in its 'Flexible Working' Guides for Employers and Employees produced by the DTI).

The flexible working legislation does not permit an employment tribunal to question the employer's business reasons for refusing a request for flexible work, but it may challenge the facts asserted by an employer in evidence of those reasons. Under sex discrimination legislation, however, the burden of proof is moved to the employer who is required to justify any business decisions affecting the employee or establish that they were within a range of reasonable responses.

[POSTMAN]

Nice one Num1,we haven't got it on the site until now.
Will move to downloads.

[banddy]

Has someone got a copy of, or can someone explain RM's Family Friendly Policy???

basically - legally RM have to allow you to "apply" but legally RM can/will refuse "on business grounds"

unless you are a favourite, a relative of a manager, or a mother, you will have very little or no chance!

[TrueBlueTerrier]

Has someone got a copy of, or can someone explain RM's Family Friendly Policy???

basically - legally RM have to allow you to "apply" but legally RM can/will refuse "on business grounds"

unless you are a favourite, a relative of a manager, or a mother, you will have very little or no chance!

That however is only your personal opinion (just pointing that out to members nothing else) as there are members of RMC on FF that I would not describe in the way you have. Ultimately, as most with most things in RM, it depends on the capability and qualities of local management, sadly again from reports on here, we don't seem to have many who have these qualities in anything other than small amounts.

[postie222]

With office revsion coming they should be scope to make family friendly duties. Only problem some people may use this to gain a better duty claiming family issues when they have none. The other side of the coin staff who are catered for can feel resentment towards them by staff. In my experiance they normalley hide behind the at no cost solution leaving members in limbo.

[POSTMAN]

There is also this...
http://www.royalmailchat.co.uk/communit ... 36&t=23734" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Big Daz]

16 I belive is the age limit for non disabled children now.

[ashuraji]

hi ,
I have been working in royal mail for 9 years , from 2008 I am on family friendly hours , from last week there is a review going on they are considering to take few duties from the unit ,i got the job full time hours by passing a exam and it was advertised at that time it was suitability and seniority that is how i was made up full time ,but they wanted 23 duties but they could not find enough people so they union changed the process to seniority , but now things have changed after 4 years the work load is gone down and they will take out few duties from unit so now i asked how they are going take out duties union said seniority,i said i passed the exam to get this job so how can it be seniority, so can any one please explain have i got any chance to fight to stay in same job or just pack and go on floor

and
i am on family friendly hours from 2008 what will happen to this will they give the hours what i was working my shift was from sunday to thrusday if they send me out side on floor there is no sunday duty so what will happen to my hours of work,
i got this duty because it was sunday to thrusday ,i have two small kids and my wife works friday to monday as a nurse this was what we were working from 3 years now it is all going change so please can any one help me and give me advice regarding the issue

i am posting in few place so that i can get advice as soon as possible as things are going very fast in our unit it will all done and dusted with in few weeks
so please let me know thanks