Employee Off Site Parking Rights

Gilbert2

getmore4less wrote: »

What are they going to do if people live in these streets or have mates in the streets they want to visit.

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Excellent point raised.

Whether people like it or not, Human Rights issues would be of issue here too.

Essentially, in the point above, the employer would actually be forbidding the employee how they should live their life.

It gets more ridiculous by the minute.

Gilbert2

RichardD1970 wrote: »

You just don't get it do you. It has nothing to do with the law, or the legality of parking on the streets in question.

If your contract says that you are not allowed to park there then, if you do, you are in breach of your contract and face the consequences.

As for the company being liable for the safety of their staff having to walk, what about the people who use public transport and have to walk from the bus stop/train station. It's only the same situation.

Argue as much as you like, cry Human Rights etc.

You are wrong.

The legal professionals are right.

No, you are wrong because you have failed to note a very important point.

It is not the same.

Some staff choose to walk/bus/train it to work.

Motorists are being ordered to do so.

Not the same situation and no employer can insist on this.

Now, I suggest 'you get it' or else your posts will simply be a waste of time and will clog up this thread.

Gilbert2

RichardD1970 wrote: »

You just don't get it do you. It has nothing to do with the law, or the legality of parking on the streets in question.

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It's the whole point of this thread!:doh:

RichardD1970

Gilbert2 wrote: »

No, you are wrong because you have failed to note a very important point.

It is not the same.

Some staff choose to walk/bus/train it to work.

Motorists are being ordered to do so.

Not the same situation and no employer can insist on this.

Now, I suggest 'you get it' or else your posts will simply be a waste of time and will clog up this thread.

They don't choose if they can't drive or afford a taxi.

And I suggest that you are clogging up this thread with your unfounded ranting much more than me :rotfl:

Gilbert2

RichardD1970 wrote: »

They don't choose if they can't drive or afford a taxi.

Will have to put you on ignore because you look like a potential headache.

Johno100

Uncertain wrote: »

They most certainly could make it a condition of employment for new staff. Apart from unlawful discrimination issues, working time directive, NMW and health and safety issues they can lay down pretty much whatever terms they like. Either you take the job on those terms or you don't - simples! If they can't get suitable staff on the terms offered they may have to re-think them but that is market forces and doesn't make the terms unlawful.

I can see possible breaches of two of those points with the employers proposal re parking restrictions.

Unlawful discrimination - if provisions are not put in place for those with limited mobility I could see a breach of disability rights protections.

Health & Safety - Once again if the employer is interferring with where an employee can park, he is potentially leaving himself open if something untoward happens to that employee when they are travelling that extra distance to their vehicle.

RichardD1970

Johno100 wrote: »

I can see possible breaches of two of those points with the employers proposal re parking restrictions.

Unlawful discrimination - if provisions are not put in place for those with limited mobility I could see a breach of disability rights protections.

Health & Safety - Once again if the employer is interferring with where an employee can park, he is potentially leaving himself open if something untoward happens to that employee when they are travelling that extra distance to their vehicle.

There is a car park but with limited space, I assume that some of these spaces are reserved for disabled/limited mobility.

Again, your other point, it is no different to someone who has to walk 5 mins to the bus stop or train station.

My work place is currently closing it's main car park to develop the land and expand the business, as a result we now have to park in car park which is off site, a 5-10 min walk across some very busy roads. This is a very large company and has been done with the consent of the TGWU.

Salz

Ah but is it a company you work for or the government?. We all know the latter can do what it wants, and they can find out what car you drive with their Good Communications of a High Quality

yvonne13_2

jimjames wrote: »

The people who arrive first get the spaces. The people most affected are those on shift patterns that mean they start later.

Fortunately I am one who normally arrives before the spaces are gone but am asking for colleagues affected by it.

Have your colleagues looked into "rent a parking space"? Some residence maybe willing to rent out space on their private drive if there also at work.

Gilbert2

yvonne13 wrote: »

Have your colleagues looked into "rent a parking space"? Some residence maybe willing to rent out space on their private drive if there also at work.

A good solution in other circumstances.

However, why would one wish the expense of renting a parking space from someone when the road directly outside is free?

In effect it has already been paid for via various taxes as a motorist is able to use the public highways for driving, and parking, without restriction anyway. (Save for those roads that do have restrictions, the one in this thread do not).