Flexible working request

[Barbeasty]

I am hoping that someone can answer a couple of questions regarding flexible working requests.

Firstly I know that you can submit one request a year. But, if I were to apply for a promotion within the same company, would I then be able to change back to "normal" full time hours within 12 months of the original request, or would I have to hope that they would give me the job on the "flexible" hours?

Secondly my plan is to request condensing my hours so that I work full time hours over 4 days. If I had Monday as my non-working day, how would that affect bank holidays? I know that it becomes a case of almost taking leave by the hour rather than the day and assume bank holidays would be the same. Obviously I wouldn't be in on a Monday anyway, so would I simply take the 1/5 of a working week off another time, either by working 4 shorter days that week or taking it another time if that makes sense?

And if I had another day as my non-working day, what happens then?

Thanks for any advice!

If you apply for an internal vacancy that is a full time job, then it's up to your employer whether they give you the job on that basis or not. It's not clear from your post whether you'd want to increase to full time or would prefer to keep your hours, but either way, if it's a new job, it's between you and your employer to agree whether you will change your terms and conditions or not.

You don't need to take leave by the hour unless your employer runs a complicated leave system on that basis. If you work 4 days a week your holiday entitlement will reduce by 4/5. If you currently get 28 days including bank holidays, you will get 22.4 days including bank holidays. If you don't normally work Mondays you may only need to use two or three of your holiday days to cover bank holidays. If you do work Mondays you are likely to need quite a lot of your holiday entitlement to cover days you would normally be at work.

Thank you for that.

I am hoping to condense my hours so that I cover the full 35hr week but over 4 days rather than 5. The promotions available don't really lend themselves to a 4 day week (in fact they start to demand weekends, nights and on-call on top of a 5 day week!). I didn't want to submit a flexible working request for my current role and then find myself unable to get the job I really want if it came up in the following 12 months because I had just tied myself into a 4 day week which couldn't change!

I thought I'd seen leave turned into hours on here, but I guess that was just a way of explaining it. If I understand correctly, the bank holiday Monday's would disappear from the equation, and I would just have to use some of my 4/5 holiday to cover good Friday and Christmas/ new year if they didn't fall on a Monday. That makes much more sense!

There is no reason your FWR could say you wanted compressed hours for 6 months then back to FT. However the more complex you make it the more an employer may want to say no.