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Employment Relations Act 2000

Flexible working - Employee's statutory right to make request

69AAB: When employee may make request

You could also call this:

“You can ask your boss to change how you work whenever you want.”

You can make a request at any time. This means that whenever you want to, you can ask for something related to your job. There are no specific times or dates when you have to wait to make your request.

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Part 6AA Flexible working
Employee's statutory right to make request

69AABWhen employee may make request

  1. An employee may make a request at any time.

Notes
  • Section 69AAB: replaced, on , by section 24 of the Employment Relations Amendment Act 2014 (2014 No 61).