The Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2023 (the Act) came into force in April 2023. The Act provided employees for the first time with a right to request remote work. The Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) then published a Code of Practice for Employers and Employees on the Right to Request Remote Working (the Code) in March of this year, which gave effect to this right and provided useful guidance in relation to remote working arrangements. Media reports in March suggested the first statutory complaints had been lodged by employees, aggrieved at their employer’s failure to grant their remote working arrangement, within days of the Code being published. These cases are now being heard by the