Employees to gain flexibility with Work-Life Balance code

For employers, managing applications from employees who want to work 40 hours in four days will be a big challenge

Deirdre Malone, partner and head of employment law at EY Law Ireland, outlines the new flexible work options on the horizon for employees in Ireland.

Ireland is facing possible EU sanctions for failing to send the European Commission national measures fully transposing EU rights on Work-Life Balance for parents and for carers.

Having sent letters of formal notice to 19 member states on the subject in September 2022, the Commission now seems likely to fine Ireland, Belgium and Spain for their failure to deliver on the Work-Life Balance Directive, adopted in 2019.