Publication - FOI/EIR release

Scottish Executive's policy for job sharing: FOI release

Published: 25 Jul 2018

Directorate:: People Directorate
Part of:: Public sector

Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.

Published:: 25 Jul 2018

FOI reference: FOI/18/01931
Date received: 16 July 2018
Date responded: 19 July 2018

Information requested

Details of the Scottish Government job share policy including the reasons for and against a job share.

Response

The answer to your question is we have a Flexible Working policy which includes a short paragraph on job share. All of our flexible working arrangements are agreed in discussion between employees and their line managers. I attach a copy of the relevant paragraphs of our policy at annex A.

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