Job Relocation - when is it a redundancy issue?

Southend1

marybelle01 wrote: »

I think the problem is that nobody knows what the answer is - in the end it is all individual circumstances and whose argument is best at the tribunal. And there could be so many variables. Some on NMW who is a working mum and primary carer relocating 48 miles is utterly unreasonable; but a well paid office manager, say, might be reasonable.

It's a bit moot because the OP here has got a mobility clause, and that makes a big difference. Whilst I sympathise if they don't want to move, there is an element of the old "you signed up for this" - it's like not wanting to work your notice. People assume that contractual clauses they don't like don't matter because "it will never happen". It does.

Yes I second that. I learned my own lesson the hard way about mobility clauses a number of years ago when I was asked/told to move to another country! I managed to get out of it in the end but I am extremely careful now not to sign up to something on the basis it is unlikely to happen.

marybelle01

Southend1 wrote: »

Yes I second that. I learned my own lesson the hard way about mobility clauses a number of years ago when I was asked/told to move to another country! I managed to get out of it in the end but I am extremely careful now not to sign up to something on the basis it is unlikely to happen.

LOL

My "mobility clause is "anywhere in the world with at least two days notice". I love it!

Southend1

Coincidentally the BBC have just put an article up on their website about this issue...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23964935