Flexible Work Schedule Policy
(with Acknowledgment)

Summary

This template is a flexible work schedule policy that defines which employees are eligible, explains how employees may apply, describes the types of flexible (or hybrid) schedules available, and sets forth the employer's expectations for employees with alternate schedules. This template includes practical guidance, drafting notes, and optional clauses. This non-jurisdictional policy may apply to employees who work flex-time, part-time, or on a compressed schedule, share a position, or telecommute, including home-based employees and other employees who work remotely. It may be used as a way of protecting employees and customers from exposure during the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The policy should be drafted to discourage employees from abusing the freedom that may come with a flexible (or hybrid) work schedule. For guidance on telecommuting agreements (also known as teleworking and remote working agreements), the essential components of effective telecommuting agreements, and practical drafting suggestions and tips, see Telecommuting Agreements: Key Drafting Considerations and Telecommuting Agreement. For detailed guidance on teleworking agreements, see Telecommuting Employees: Best Practices Checklist. For guidance on state and local predictive scheduling laws, which require employers in certain industries to provide employees with advance notice of their schedules, see Predictive and Flexible Scheduling Laws State and Local Law Survey. For state and local secure scheduling policies, see the Attendance, Leaves, and Breaks column of Employment Policies State Expert Forms and Checklists Chart. For guidance on a wide variety of COVID-19 legal issues, see Coronavirus (COVID-19) Resource Kit. For a resource kit focused on employees returning to work and broken up by key employment law topics, see Coronavirus (COVID-19) Resource Kit: Return to Work. For tracking of key federal, state, and local COVID-19-related Labor & Employment legal developments, see Coronavirus (COVID-19) Federal and State Employment Law Tracker. Also see state and federal COVID-19 legislative, regulatory, and executive order updates from State Net, which are available here. For recent key Labor & Employment legal developments that may impact this content, see the Labor & Employment Key Legal Developments Tracker (Current). For a full listing of key content covering employee handbook considerations, see Employee Handbook Resource Kit.