flexable working

[cass14]

just need abit of advice,

iam a supervisor for fairly new company, i worked 40 hours before i had my baby, i have requested for fleable woking. i asked to drop a day to go down to 32 hours with set days off.

i put in a request for flexible working over a month ago, finally had my meeting today, its been denied, they not met me half not, not gave me any alternatives. there's a girl who is higher up then me and when she come back from maternity dropped to 20 hours over 4 days which was accepted straight away no problem......im unsure where to go from here and was wondering if anyone els had any problems like this?

sorry its a boring one, just not sure off my options

Does your company have a way you can appeal the decision? Show them you are serious about this?

Also what reasons did they give for rejecting?

Iam definitely appealing, they said my hours werent flexible enough for a manager which is fine ive decided to change them but the there sayin I cannot drop a day as theyd have to hire someone for 8 hours, but theu didnt do this with my colleague who dropped 20 hours, they say its first come first served, is this allowed? Is this a form of discrimination? Thanka for the reply

In what way would this be discrimination? Are you both female?

When did your colleague put in her request? If it was even just a few days before you they would have considered hers in isolation to yours. They can do it on a first come basis as they can't possibly foresee what flex requests may be coming in future. As long as they act within the law if there are 2 identical requests submitted on the day for the same reason they could flip a coin to decide. Sounds daft but it would be a reasonable way to decide things.

Understandably your post sounds a bit emotional. Get to grips with the objective facts of your case, ditch the subjective ones and pursue an appeal. "It's not fair" won't cut it, I'm afraid.