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21 June 2024 / Rachel Crasnow KC , Imogen Brown
Issue: 8076 / Categories: Features , Procedure & practice , Employment , Tribunals , Discrimination
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Home or away: workplace disputes

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Work-from-home claims are on the rise, & practitioners need to prepare for the fallout, say Rachel Crasnow KC & Imogen Brown

Sets out the main reasons employees are likely to request remote working, and how best to navigate the legal issues arising where the interests of employee and employer clash.

With a general election just around the corner, one political battleground is likely to be home working. In May 2023, it was reported by the Telegraph that Labour had plans to make home working a legal right if they came into power. In Labour’s recent Plan to Make Work Pay, it is similarly said that flexible working will be the ‘default from day one for all workers’, implying they intend to introduce a legal right to it. Conversely, in November 2023, the Conservatives’ Jacob Rees-Mogg was reported to have left notes on the desks of civil servants who were working from home. ‘Sorry you were out when I visited. I look forward to seeing you

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