Ms Wendy Gray:

The Deputy is right. We need to look at it with regard to the reasonable grounds. We are trying to balance it. We cannot cause an avalanche of cases going to the WRC. We also need to manage expectations. The code of practice will be looked at. We expect that individual employers would put certain parameters in place regarding requests for remote work in their own policies. That will be taken into account as well, depending on how they deal with issues such as costs in the remote work policy and explain to employees how they will treat requests. We have to look further at that.