Being Forced to Relocate Unwillingly

Malkin157

Has she looked at https://www.liftshare.com/uk/

Could be other people making the same journey.


At least her job is only moving 15 miles and not disappearing, first world problems hey?

dancingfairy

Her options appear to be either accept the move (and the increased costs) and then possibly look for a new job or take redundancy. She can drive, admittedly she will need to possibly practice the journey a few times to build up confidence.
Is she in a union? Has she asked them for advice.
Does she actually like her job and her colleagues as this will make a big difference.
Is she being TUPED (which it sounds like) or just moved offices?
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YorkshireGuy

dancingfairy wrote: »

Her options appear to be either accept the move (and the increased costs) and then possibly look for a new job or take redundancy. She can drive, admittedly she will need to possibly practice the journey a few times to build up confidence.
Is she in a union? Has she asked them for advice.
Does she actually like her job and her colleagues as this will make a big difference.
Is she being TUPED (which it sounds like) or just moved offices?
df

She has just joined Unison in the hope that they will be able to help.
She currently likes the job but doesn't think it's worth doing all this extra travelling for. She gets on ok with her colleagues but most of them are not being transferred to the new office with her so she will have a whole new set of people to get to know.
Yes, I think she is being TUPED but the key point, I think, is that her contract states where she works and the employer wants to change that to a completely different location.

Orville

YorkshireGuy wrote: »

Not really. I run a business from home which involves visiting customers in the town where she currently works!

OK lets cut to the chase.

She takes redundancy. Can you afford to live on one wage..? If so go that route. If not then bite the bullet and get her a car, all this she is not a confident driver comments are excuses. The more you drive the more confidence you gain.

Remember the JC don't care about her personal circumstances, so if she does indeed sign on at some point down the line, they may very well ask her to go for interviews in the same town and if she refuses or does not turn up she'll be sanctioned which means no pay.

I think at an extra distance of only 15 miles she is lucky as most relocations are in a totally different area let alone town.

*Edit*

Thinking on it at only that short a distance i don't see why you couldn't drive her anyway as you work from home..? 15 miles is only 30 or so minutes if that. If your self employed you can make allowances for this surely with only the odd day when you might have to go out etc. Those odd days catching a train / bus shouldn't be a problem for her.

kelpie35

I think your wife really has to decide if she really wants this job.

There are only two options open to her.

1. Take it and travel there.
2. Leave and become unemployed, hopefully for not too long.

You have been given many ideas on how to combat this problem but seem to come up with many excuses.

Your wife is only experiencing what many hundreds of people have to face every day.

Gloomendoom

I mentioned above that my ex-wife was offered redundancy or a 42 mile relocation. In the end she decided to take the relocation. It meant a change from a five minute walk to an hour's drive in horrendous traffic but at least it was work and it meant that all her civil service pension entitlements etc were kept intact.

GwylimT

YorkshireGuy wrote: »

We have spent many thousands modifying our current house so that I can operate my business from it. Moving house isn't really an option and would cost loads.

Being unemployed is rather pricey.

Errata

Looks like the real world of work has caught up with your wife. Vanishingly few people have a commute that's almost round the corner, which 4 miles is.
Whatever qualifications and experience someone has, jobs are hard to come by and could easily involve a longer commute than the one that's being offered.

laurel7172

When my job was moved, I accepted a similar change to gloomendoom's ex-wife. Forty-odd miles in hideous traffic.

I put up with it until found another job around 20 miles away, which was a huge relief. It's all about perspective, I guess.

OP-however aggrieved one might feel at unasked-for change, running a car is cheaper than losing a job. If you don't need the second salary, then you can afford the car if you need it. If you can't afford a second car, you can't afford to lose a salary either.

poet123

I appreciate that change is hard but.....

You have several viable options; you take her to work, as you are self employed surely you can structure your day/appointments to fit with that and 15 miles is negligible in the scheme of things.

Alternatively, to keep the job you get a second car, which if weighed against loss of salary must surely still be viable?

Both of the above can be stop gap measures till your wife gets a more local job.

Or she resigns and looks for a job whilst doing without a salary.....I know what my choice would be.