Employees not allowed to park in customer car park

Marktheshark

Sounds like a PPC have moved in and are looking to set a trap for the prey.

Takeaway_Addict

Has anyone asked Why yet?

[Deleted User]

Deleted_User wrote: »

Where I work employees have always been able to park in the customer car park. Now a notice has gone up at work saying staff are no longer allowed to park in the car park and have to park elsewhere.

Can they do this?

Yeah, when I posted about this same issue I was just told to get a bike or bus (which would have meant taking 2 or 3 buses in one go to get across the other side of town) and so actually wasn't cheaper then running a car

I really don't hold out much hope, as the Co. had the audacity to have chats over what they felt serious issues of parking out front of someone home (that was the issue) and 'bringing them in to disrepute' even though I wasn't always guilty I was told to just go park at Tesco in the end, alas, they have signs that after more than 3 hours you face fines galore with camera's, it's an hour and a half restriction at the cheaper end of supermarket!

Now I pay £15 weekly out of national minimum wage pay to park private, beggars belief and oh they wonder why people don't want to see the point in working.

Still I'm hopeful we'll get a park n ride

hcb42

It's £15 a day where I work...


A lot of people have no parking at work at all. My staff mostly walk 0.9 mile each way to main railway station. They don't have to give you parking but of course if it genuinely isn't full then everything is negotiable.

kazzah

I wonder what would happen if someone was mugged or attacked when walking from the "suggested" parking area

my son works for the local council and if any of the staff are not at work within the allotted flexi time and haven't phoned in sick- then their line manager calls them at home " to see if they left for work at the usual time" - now I KNOW this is a seemingly concerned method of finding out if they have overslept/got a hangover/swinging the lead but it implies they are concerned for staff safety as well as productivity!

But I wonder if the Op could ask their management who will be phoning the homes of any staff who don't make it into work and who don't ring in
" on the off chance they have been mugged/attacked on the way from where they park their car"

it MIGHT just worry the management sufficiently to get them tio re-think the rules for those working anti-social hours

Takeaway_Addict

kazzah wrote: »

I wonder what would happen if someone was mugged or attacked when walking from the "suggested" parking area

my son works for the local council and if any of the staff are not at work within the allotted flexi time and haven't phoned in sick- then their line manager calls them at home " to see if they left for work at the usual time" - now I KNOW this is a seemingly concerned method of finding out if they have overslept/got a hangover/swinging the lead but it implies they are concerned for staff safety as well as productivity!

But I wonder if the Op could ask their management who will be phoning the homes of any staff who don't make it into work and who don't ring in
" on the off chance they have been mugged/attacked on the way from where they park their car"

it MIGHT just worry the management sufficiently to get them tio re-think the rules for those working anti-social hours

Explain to me please how an employer is responsible for how someone gets to work?

[Deleted User]

http://www.usdaw.org.uk/Campaigns/Safe-Journey

http://www.usdaw.org.uk/Publications/Campaigns/Safe-Journey/What%E2%80%99s-happening-on-your-journey-to-work-Survey-Re

Takeaway_Addict

Deleted_User wrote: »

http://www.usdaw.org.uk/Campaigns/Safe-Journey

http://www.usdaw.org.uk/Publications/Campaigns/Safe-Journey/What%E2%80%99s-happening-on-your-journey-to-work-Survey-Re

Don't get me wrong Lee, a good employer would where possible make sure the journey is as safe as possible and there are legal issues when it is their own car park etc.

However, there is not a legal requirement to make sure the journey to work is safe, this would just be unpractical because for example, how would an employer make sure the 3 mile walk from someones house to work was safe etc.

The links you have given do not show any legal responsibility for an employer in how an employee can get to work.

Johno100

Takeaway_Addict wrote: »

Explain to me please how an employer is responsible for how someone gets to work?

Perhaps not in the OP's case, but where employers seek to 'outlaw' the perfectly legal parking of vehicles in the proximity of the workplace on public streets, in the interests of 'keeping local residents happy', then they are interfering in how someone gets to work and should be responsible for any extra risk they are imposing.

Takeaway_Addict

Johno100 wrote: »

Perhaps not in the OP's case, but where employers seek to 'outlaw' the perfectly legal parking of vehicles in the proximity of the workplace on public streets, in the interests of 'keeping local residents happy', then they are interfering in how someone gets to work and should be responsible for any extra risk they are imposing.

Totally agree with this. Its not the employers business or issue where someone parks outside of their own property.