Mr. Dermot Mulligan:

Possibly. We are contemplating how to frame this legislation in a way that does not create a right to remote working but only a right to request remote working.

One of the options open to an adjudication officer is to refer a situation back to an employer to consider it again. To use the example given, the employer's policy could be referred back to the employer for review in the context of the code of practice and, indeed, a situation can be referred back to an employer to be reconsidered. That is rather than saying employer X or employee Y should be granted remote working. That would create a right to remote working, which is further than what the legislation has in mind. We must find a mechanism in between that allows the adjudication officer, as part of a process, to ensure the employer considers the issue in an appropriate way.