The trigger date for employees with childcare responsibilities to be given the right to request that their employers consider adopting flexible working patterns is 6 April, 2003 and is intended to promulgate the Government’s family friendly policies, but it must be questionable as to how much of a benefit this will be in practice.
The Government has shied away from giving employees a prescriptive right to work part-time or to work on a flexible basis. The right simply extends to the ability to request that an employer give consideration to the employee working flexibly.
