Ms Maeve McElwee:

What we would say in this regard is the Government has recognised that there are real challenges for employers, that every situation is unique and that the difference between an individual who has an ambition to work remotely and the overall obligations of an employer, from the background of all of the legislation by which we have to be governed, as well as the rights and obligations we have to every other employee within the business, is very difficult to marry up under a single item of legislation. That is what we have been discussing and engaging with publicly around the issue. It is trying to understand the fact that your right to request remote working impacts on your colleague who sits beside-----