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Do you have a solid understanding of the legal ramifications of flexible work?
Are you armed with the right information to avoid putting your organization at risk?
With legislation changing, you may be surprised to find that, right now, you’re not.
A great way to test your knowledge of the legal implications and challenges of flexible work is to take our challenge.
After you take the challenge, let us know how many of the challenge questions you got right and what surprised you the most.
Also, don’t forget: If you want to have access to a resource that will help to ensure legal compliance as it relates to your flexible work practices and updates you every time there’s a change in legislation, we’ve got a solution for you. Just contact Kelly Gouteixm kelly.gouteix(at)flexpaths(dot)com or Beth Starr, beth.starr(at)flexpaths(dot)com.
Flex Legal Challenge from FlexPaths & Littler View more documents from FlexPaths
Have you read our most recent white paper we released in collaboration with Littler Mendelson?
Mitigate or Litigate: Flexible Working & Legal Exposure View more documents from FlexPaths
We participated in Littler’s 2010 Executive Employer® conference — one of the most innovative gatherings around employment law information held in the US, where flexible work was noted as the leading edge of how work will be done.
Garry Mathiason, Chairman of the Board at Littler, introduced FlexPaths as he presented “10 Workplace Trends” in employment law for the next decade. It was striking that 2 of 10 ten future trends involved a shift to flexible work:
That’s noteworthy to say the least in the vast and complicated world of employment law — that flexible work is garnering that much attention in the legal community.
The convergence of Littler’s legal expertise and FlexPaths’ knowledge of the practical application of flexible work fills a major gap. It’s clear there is great synergy with our combined talents and perspectives — to help leaders and line managers who worry about the legal issues related to flexible work embrace a trend that is growing virally and to protect themselves legally.
Sandy Burud of FlexPaths gleaned further insight into legislation and what it means for the future of flexible work:
I’m struck with the span of legislation in the works promoting flexible work – from the ‘green’ legislation geared to reducing commutes, FSLA changes, telework legislation, and sick time and leave legislation. When you put all the pieces together, a meta-trend is clearly at work. And, like the bunch of sticks being harder to break than a single stick, together they underscore how systemic this change is and how fast it is accelerating.
The white paper also points out some common stereotypes that managers make about flexible work arrangements that may result in unlawful conduct.
The most common – and the one with the greatest legal exposure – is the stereotype that people working flexibly are poor performers and so can be treated differently. Besides the fact that research substantiates the reverse – that employees who have more options about when and where they work tend to be more efficient and productive – the assumption can lead to discriminatory behavior.
This white paper underscores the importance of having flexible work polices and procedures in place as well as the provision of methods and mechanisms to hold flexible workers and their managers accountable.
It also illustrates the importance of human resources and legal working together to make sure everything is compliant and modifications are made as needed when laws change or are amended. FlexPaths, in collaboration with Littler, offers solutions for these with products and services can add immediate value to an organization that wants to create a flexible working culture.
FlexPaths’ focus is to help companies create and leverage a flexible working culture.
Evolving a culture is never immediate, it is a journey.
With that said, FlexPaths is about putting flexible working software solutions in the hands of key company stakeholders - HR, employees and managers – for easy, quick access and benefit. Once our global technology platforms are in place at a company, they can be quickly phased in for access by a department or division, or at the enterprise level.
Our ability to scale and move flexible working value across an organization systemically through technology, is a differentiator and accelerator to move on the culture change front.
Furthermore, by supplementing the legally compliant content and work flow in our product offerings through our collaboration with Littler Mendelson, we help companies step back to understand, monitor and evaluate the legal challenges associated with flexible work. As a result, our solution helps companies respond accordingly and expeditiously.
