Employee Off Site Parking Rights

spacey2012

No it is a very good point.
What next ? telling you what you can where in bed at home with your wife.
How the employee gets to work and what they do with their car is no concern of any employer unless it is parked on the employers property.
They are paying you to work, not to live your entire life to their rules.
Parking a car is a legal right.
The employer is THE PROVERBIAL.
look at unions, see who will assist and put this pocket Hitler back in his box.
If residents dont like where you park, tough, they do not have any parking rights on street other than the ones you do.
Let them take it up with the council.

dizzyrascal

spacey2012 wrote: »

No it is a very good point.
What next ? telling you what you can where in bed at home with your wife.
How the employee gets to work and what they do with their car is no concern of any employer unless it is parked on the employers property.
They are paying you to work, not to live your entire life to their rules.
Parking a car is a legal right.
The employer is THE PROVERBIAL.
look at unions, see who will assist and put this pocket Hitler back in his box.
If residents dont like where you park, tough, they do not have any parking rights on street other than the ones you do.
Let them take it up with the council.

Of course it is! Why do you think that all the roads near to large hospitals and universities only have "Residents only parking". You have to have a balance and if a large employer is upsetting the neighborhood then the council may well step in to restrict parking so that is is fair to the residents.
How would you feel if you had to park 2 or 3 streets away and had to carry 10 bags of shopping back to your house with a baby and a couple of toddlers in tow!!

jimjames

dizzyrascal wrote: »

You have to have a balance and if a large employer is upsetting the neighborhood then the council may well step in to restrict parking so that is is fair to the residents.

Absolutely. But at present there are no parking restrictions and I would guess that the local residents do not want that either as it would restrict their ability to park when/where they want too. With no restrictions legally it does mean that anyone can park on that street.

It doesn't affect me personally but based on the less than desirable location I wouldn't want to park my there anyway as it is unlikely to have all wheels when I return!

I'm also interested to know how a company can identify which private vehicle a member of staff is driving outside the premises to link a vehicle to an employee. Again I cannot see any obligation on an employee to provide personal vehicle details if it isn't being parked onsite.

Uncertain

jimjames wrote: »

Thanks for the feedback.

But presumably only after a revised contract. Not just an email sent out by HR saying "you cannot do this" when "this" refers to a perfectly legal parking outside of your working hours and not on company premises. The only parking policies I can find online relate solely to parking on employers premises.

As I say, it ultimately comes down to whether this would be deemed to be a reasonable management request. Your contract, written or implied, will require you to obey such requests so if it is reasonable then it is, in effect, part of your contract..

Uncertain

jimjames wrote: »

I'm also interested to know how a company can identify which private vehicle a member of staff is driving outside the premises to link a vehicle to an employee. Again I cannot see any obligation on an employee to provide personal vehicle details if it isn't being parked onsite.

They can send somebody to stand outside at 5 o'clock and see who get into which car, no law against that!

cr1mson

Uncertain wrote: »

As I say, it ultimately comes down to whether this would be deemed to be a reasonable management request. Your contract, written or implied, will require you to obey such requests so if it is reasonable then it is, in effect, part of your contract..

Would it come under any contract clause not doing anything to harm the reputation of the business? I have no idea just asking!

spacey2012

Absolute codswallop.
Heard it all now.

jimjames

cr1mson wrote: »

Would it come under any contract clause not doing anything to harm the reputation of the business? I have no idea just asking!

Yes I can imagine it could be used as a clause in that way.

Uncertain

spacey2012 wrote: »

No it is a very good point.
What next ? telling you what you can where in bed at home with your wife.
How the employee gets to work and what they do with their car is no concern of any employer unless it is parked on the employers property.
They are paying you to work, not to live your entire life to their rules.
Parking a car is a legal right.
The employer is THE PROVERBIAL.
look at unions, see who will assist and put this pocket Hitler back in his box.
If residents dont like where you park, tough, they do not have any parking rights on street other than the ones you do.
Let them take it up with the council.

Rightly or wrongly your "worker's rights, everybody out" attitude is living in the past.

Whether you agree with it or not there are plenty of places of work that do restrict where their staff can park so it CAN be done lawfully.

As I said whether imposing such a change on existing employees would be found to be reasonable in this case is not certain but it could well be depending on the circumstances.

Ultimately if negotiation fails the OP's only option would be to resign and claim unfair dismissal and the fact that "spacey2012" doesn't think its right won't figure much in the tribunal's ruling!

Uncertain

cr1mson wrote: »

Would it come under any contract clause not doing anything to harm the reputation of the business? I have no idea just asking!

Potentially yes but it does depend on all the circumstances.