Hi all,

We have a FWR for a colleague who currently works 3 days in the office 2 days at home (contract states office based but as per our hybrid working policy we allow this working arrangement).

The colleague is coming back from Maternity Leave and asked that she works 3 days from home and 2 days in the office.  She was an underperformer prior to Mat Leave and her reason stated in the FWR was that she has no childcare for one of the days so would like to WFH and look after her child.  The business can't support this due to it being an office based role and activity which needs to be completed on site - but where do we stand in terms of rejecting a request whereby looking after her 1 year old child has been stated as the reason?

Thanks,

Steve