Employers may deny requests for compelling business reasons, but must explain refusals. Table 3.2 presents employees’ statutory rights to flexible working arrangements for family reasons in selected OECD countries. Parents should not only be able to reduce their working hours, they should also know that they may resume full-time working hours when their children grow up. A few countries have complemented the right to work part-time with the entitlement to return to full-time work and/or automatically revert to previous hours after a certain specified period (Table 3.2).