How can your employer block a request to work from home?

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Employers who refuse a request must identify why on the basis of ‘reasonable business grounds’

If employers refuse such requests they have to identify why on the basis of “reasonable business grounds”.

6. When there is a burden from additional costs, taking into account the financial and other costs entailed and the scale and financial resources of the employer’s business;

 

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I love how the Irish media constantly focus on the welfare of office workers. This will have little or no relevance to people working on or near minimum wage. livingwage

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