General

This Precedent is a letter by which the employee submits a statutory request for a flexible working arrangement, which satisfies the statutory requirements regarding the form and content of such requests set out in section 13B of the Parental Leave Act 1998 (Ireland) (PLA 1998 (IRL)) as amended, and in the Workplace Relations Commission’s (WRC) Code of Practice for Employers and Employees Right to Request Flexible Working and Right to Request Remote Working.

Legal framework

As mentioned above, the statutory flexible working scheme is set out in PLA 1998 (IRL), s 13B and in the SI No 92/2024, Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2023 (Workplace Relations Commission Code of Practice on the Right to Request Flexible Working and the Right to Request Remote Working) Order 2024 (Ireland).

The legislative framework is supported by the WRC’s Code of Practice for Employers and Employees Right to Request Flexible Working and Right to Request Remote Working (WRC’s Code of Practice):

The WRC Code of Conduct includes a template application for flexible working. There is, however,