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

[missbluebird]

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

[missbluebird]

Also what reasons did they give for rejecting?

[cass14]

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

[baffledmum]

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.