work life balance -whose responsibility?

[perplexedcolleague]

is it my responsibility to achieve this, eg by choosing the right job and part-time hours, and only having one job,or is it my employers' responsibility to give me hours that suit, and so I can fit in a second part-time job?

(fwr turned down, am considering appeal)

perplexed, you are being super unreasonable - only one extra weekend per 2 months, not a big ask - do it yourself then

You don't seem to have much respect for your colleagues work/ life balance

I think for FWR

"You will then have the statutory right to ask if you:

• have or expect to have parental responsibility of a child aged under 17
• have or expect to have parental responsibility of a disabled child under 18 who receives Disability Living Allowance (DLA)
• are the parent/guardian/special guardian/foster parent/private foster carer or as the holder of a residence order or the spouse, partner or civil partner of one of these and are applying to care for the child
• are a carer who cares, or expects to be caring, for an adult who is a spouse, partner, civil partner or relative; or who although not related to you, lives at the same address as you"

the slightly tricky thing here is that your request doesn't appear to be for the purpose that FWR was 'created' i.e. to allow you the flexibility to care for your dependents. Your grounds for appeal would be shaky and I am not sure the work-life balance argument can apply.

Also, have you spoken to your colleagues and have they agreed to cover the weekends or are you just assuming that they will?

The right to request flexible working is about freeing you up for caring responsibilities.

However, you've asked for other reasons and they have duly considered - and rejected it - end of story.

You have no right to be granted flexible working.

Arranging work hours for one job to give you time to work at another job isn't work - life balance it's work- work balance and of course it's not your employer's responsibility.

You only have the right to request flexible working if it is for the purpose of caring for someone anyway, so in your case your employer wasn't even obliged to listen to the request let alone grant it.

Have a and leave these boards for people who have genuine employment issues.

are you hoping other colleagues take on extra work so you get 2nd job?
that's a big ask and may be disruptive to their work life balance