Advice. Myoffice is moving.

Burtybus

I am hoping someone on here may be able to help.
I have been with my cuurent employers 12 months. When I took the job, my office was 11 miles form my house. My department has now relocated - 42 miles from my home. I will be paid petrol expenses on the extra 31 miles for the rest of this year. In January I will go form part time to full time and have a change of role, so will be getting a new contract. My line manager has told me in that new contract - out new location will be called Base. So this means as I will be travelling to base and back daily i will not be entitled to petrol allowance any more.
At the moment there is only my manager and i in the department, but we are about to start a recruitmant campaign for 4 or 5 other members of staff for Jan/Feb start - obviously it will be a local recruitmant campaign, so I will be the only one will a long commute (probably) plus my manager only lives 13 miles away. The unit we have relocated too has been given to us for 12 months free of charge as we are a local charity. So i just think it would be be good for me to be paid some petrol allowance as they relocated me. As we are a charity, im not expecting to make out of this, but just get enough to cover my travel. At currentpetrol prices it will cost me nearly £3000/year just to get to work and home. ANy thoughts please??

Hammyman

Leave or stay and put up with it. They are quite right in what they say and in fact, they don't actually have to pay you a thing for the rest of the year.

Whilst it may cost you an extra £3k a year, many people have to pay that and more to travel to work.

skintandscared_2

I pay over £3k a year to get to/from work by train. Driving would be more. If you don't want to pay it, get a new job closer to home.

KiKi

skintandscared wrote: »

I pay over £3k a year to get to/from work by train. Driving would be more. If you don't want to pay it, get a new job closer to home.

Me too. Nearly £4k actually. And some days it doesn't even work.

KiKi

Sam_Wonne

Although it seems 'unfair' because they would have covered petrol expenses in your current role where you have had to move, the new role will be viewed as a new commitment to the charity at it's new base that you have chosen to take on and that's the difference and by no means unusual.

Sambucus_Nigra

I live 45 miles from home, and also work for a charity. But I drive there and would rather do that than not have a job. So, it's your choice I suppose.