Flexitime policy template

1   Overview

1.1   [Company] recognises the commitment and hard work of all staff and understands that individuals may, at some time in their working lives, find it difficult to maintain a balance between their professional and personal commitments.

1.2   [Company] also understands that the promotion of flexible working patterns can reduce unauthorised absences from work and employee stress, and in turn promote a good work-life balance and improve performance and productivity.

1.3   One way for [Company] to do this is to offer flexitime, whereby employees work their total number of contractual hours, but are permitted flexibility as to when they begin and end a day or shift.

2   Scope

2.1   This policy is applicable to all empoyees of [Company].

3   General Principles

3.1   When flexitime can operate

3.1.1   [All employees are entitled to benefit from [Company]'s flexitime scheme. This means that employees can generally work flexitime, as long as they abide by the restrictions set out below.

3.1.2   However, flexitime should not interfere with [Company]'s needs or the employee's job duties and line managers can override flexitime arrangements to meet the needs of the business.]

3.1.3   [OR

3.1.4   [Company] will consider requests to work flexitime from [all employees/employees in [details, for example particular departments or types of job]]. [Employees should refer to [Company]'s policy on non-statutory requests for flexible working, which sets out how requests can be made.]]

3.1.5   Requests from part-time employees to work flexitime will be considered on the same basis as requests from full-time employees.

3.2   How flexitime works

Each employee who is covered by a flexitime arrangement can vary his/her hours around the core working periods. The hours banked can be used at a later date to