From: "Martin Davies" 
Newsgroups: uk.finance uk.legal
Subject: Re: Question on TUPE and office relocation
Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 09:51:54 GMT


"Jethro"  wrote in message
news:d5sjnm$8p4$1@nwrdmz03.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com...
> Hi All,
>
> The firm I work for was taken over in February. All staff were transferred
> under TUPE.
>
> There is now an office relocation in progress. At present I have a 12
> mile/25 minute journey from home to work. Parking at the current premises
is
> free.
>
> The new location is either 14 miles/1hour + through town (Birmingham) or
> 20miles/c 40 minutes by motorway. No parking is provided at the new
offices,
> although there are several car parks within 10 minutes walk of the office.
> These charge 8pounds/day.
>
> My question is are there any obligations on my employer to mitigate the
> increased expenditure to myself ? At present, a rough estimate is that it
> will cost me about 2,000pounds/annum to be able to drive to work, and park
> as at present. This is excluding any increase in travelling time.
>
> Quite bluntly I can't afford *any* increase in expenditure.
>
> AIUI if I find the new location untenable, I can consider being made
> redundant, with all that entails ? I have worked here for 18 months.
>
> From the employers POV, if he is pushed into increasing payments to staff
> (my case is the most benign, two other employees are seeing their
potential
> journeys double) rather than losing them wholesale (we have 5 employees at
> this office), then what would be the best way to do it ? A straight pay
rise
> (which would have to be a net increase to cover the costs AFAIAC) ? Or a
> mileage allowance ? Would that be based on the distance from the exisiting
> offices to the new ones, or from my house to the new ones ?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> J
>
>

I've come across a few employer who agree to pay additional costs to staff
for the additional travel. Not every company does it, but the ones I've seen
will take account of the increased mileage only, and base parking at the new
site on cheapest local facilities.
And usually with time restrictions about how long the expenses will cover
for.

Martin  <><