The Impact of the New Rights to Flexible Working

• Author:
• Simon Jeffreys

The 12 July decision by the Employment Appeal Tribunal
in the case of Sykes -v- JP Morgan underlines the
significance of the new rights to flexible working. Many
difficult issues of sex discrimination should now be
avoided.

In this case the applicant was a mother of three children.
She was dismissed on the ground of redundancy. During her
employment she had asked for flexible working hours in
order to have more contact with her children. In addition
to unfair dismissal she claimed that... (228 more words)

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