is company trying to force me out of work?

SarEl

Hmm - those answers may not actually help a lot, but I think we need to see what that written statement actually says about your workplace. If you have routinely not gone to your "workplace" first and then to site, it could be argued that this constitutes a mobility clause - that the site you are working on is your workplace, wherever that is. It certainly isn't clear cut from these answers. You need to get hold of that document.

smc1969

yes i will,soon as i get it i will post it here,and i do like to thank you for helping out,and i am sorry for babbling on about things as i am a total wreck at moment with worry.one other thing to ask,if a company was laying off several people(drivers and labourers)in glasgow and lanarkshire),and you,the only one from ayrshire, asked for your redundancy,instead of travelling to a job miles away and then get refused?is that legal or illegal?

hcb42

where you live doesnt come into it with redundancy, as has already been stipulated, you are responsible for getting to your place of work whether that is 2 mins or 200 miles away

smc1969

my company is just started a new contract in islay,which most of my fellow workers are over there the now,everyone has got there expenses to get over there to place of work,ferry fare and transport etc(there own transport not companys),so how come i dont get anything then travelling to my place of work?so is my company breaking law then?or are they trying to force me to quit so i walk away with nothing.and another thing is why pay off local workers working there longer than me
have been paid off.and yet i asked for redundancy too and got refused and im miles away.

Emmzi

we don't know, and we can't tell you until you post your contract details! I'm sorry you are annoyed but we do need more info.

smc1969

i asked for my contract last week(wednesday 15th june2011) and still not recieved it from employers.how long do they have to give me it as thats a week now?

SarEl

smc1969 wrote: »

my company is just started a new contract in islay,which most of my fellow workers are over there the now,everyone has got there expenses to get over there to place of work,ferry fare and transport etc(there own transport not companys),so how come i dont get anything then travelling to my place of work?so is my company breaking law then?or are they trying to force me to quit so i walk away with nothing.and another thing is why pay off local workers working there longer than me
have been paid off.and yet i asked for redundancy too and got refused and im miles away.

There is no specified time, but write again. Send it recorded delivery.

But in terms of your post - the advice you got from Emmzi is right. We still don't know your place of work (if you have one and are not covered nu a mobility clause). Your colleagues got sent to Islay and got expenses - but you didn't get sent to Islay, so what they got is meaningless. Because we don't evem know what your contract says, never mind theirs! So no - the company is not breaking the law based on this - and we have told you this.

We have also told you - you don't get to be made redundant becasue your job isn't convenient to you. Sorry, but that's the brutal fact. You get made redundant if your employer doesn't need your job doing any more. It isn't pick and mix. And redundancy has nothing at all to do with where you live.

I am sorry. I know you have perhaps not been well advised based on what you have said. But you wound this situation up to fever pitch in a couple of days rather than try to resolve it amicably and peacefully. And I am not suggesting the the employer is being at all grown up about it by responding in kind. So for now you need to calm down and try to act less in anger and more in a peaceful way. Anger is not going to change anything at all - or not for the better.

smc1969

your right,im sorry ill just wait for contract,soon as i get it ill post here,thanks.

SarEl

That's better - now write nicely and ask for your contract and ask for it in say five working days. Writing now can't make matters worse. Just try to stay calm.

smc1969

well thats near three weeks now and still no statement of terms and conditions,every time i ask for it they are saying the director of company dealing with it.