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Question on TUPE and office relocation

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
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Jethro
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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 <

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Martin Davies

Statutory Redundancy doesn't kick in until you've been employed for 2 years. Start looking for another job, because even if you do get some kind of increase, it'll make the company more interested in finding ways to oust you, or decline further pay increases you'd otherwise be due further down the line. And they'll only pay you the compensation for a year or so.

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fishman

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