suitable alternative role

an9i77

My employer has relocated my job to another office and put me at risk of redundancy. It's currently a home/field based role but most of the work is done on the phone and email, with a few face to face meetings.

The new job will be completley phone and email based, but will essentially be the same job, same skill set etc. If anything it's a bit narrower than the old job, but certainly nothing new that I haven't done before

The job title is the same (they have put something in brackets after the job title to differentiate it from the old job) and salary, benefits etc the same.

My employer is trying to get out of redeploying me because they don't want to. They are insisting that the new job is not a suitable alternative due to the fact that it will be based from an office not home/field and therefore they don't have to redeploy me. But I am more than willing to work in an office, and have plenty of experience doing this previously.

So my question is - are they right to say that they have no obligation to move me to the new job based on the fact that it will be office based rather than field based? Or is it only if I say I don't want to work in an office that the job becomes unsuitable?

As I am 20 weeks pregnant I will claim unfair dismissal on the basis of pregnancy discrimination if they don't give me the new job, seeing as it is basically the old job minus the car.

What do you think my chances are?

Many thanks