Travelling during notice

PasturesNew

The current location is 20 miles away from your home.
The new location is 70 miles away from your home, with a vehicle travelling time of 1 hour 20 minutes (Google times).

These figures can be important for people to know when answering your question. If you walked into the dole office they'd say that travelling 1.5 hours to work is your "limit" for job hunting and claiming dole.

TELLIT01

Will the additional travel time be covered within your normal working hours, or will you be picked up an hour earlier and get back an hour later.
If within normal working hours I don't see that you have a particularly strong case for refusal. If it means longer hours, paid or otherwise, your case for refusal may be stronger due to other commitments.

jobbingmusician

I don't understand your question either.

Your employer is (possibly) planning to relocate you to another depot, further away. You are arguing, quite reasonably, that even if they collect you each day and drive you there, it will take you extra time each day. (How much extra time?)

If you refuse this offer, presumably the employer will make you redundant (assuming you have at least two years' service. If you have not, you will be entitled to nothing.) The employer is very unlikely to back down and say 'Oh, OK, stay where you are then.'

So, if you plan to fight this, you need to know your options. How much redundancy would you get? (There are sites which will work out statutory redundancy for you.) How much longer would the travel take you if you accepted the new post?

Obviously if your redundancy payout would be high and you are confident of getting another job quickly, it's a no brainer. If you would be very unlikely to get another job, it's also pretty much a no brainer. There are lots of other scenarios.....

MRJOL

TELLIT01 wrote: »

Will the additional travel time be covered within your normal working hours, or will you be picked up an hour earlier and get back an hour later.
If within normal working hours I don't see that you have a particularly strong case for refusal. If it means longer hours, paid or otherwise, your case for refusal may be stronger due to other commitments.

Travel would be in our working hours. When we moved from Dartford to Aylesford we signed paperwork stating our new place of employment, so surely we can refuse there request to travel to the new depot.

MRJOL

jobbingmusician wrote: »

I don't understand your question either.

If you refuse this offer, presumably the employer will make you redundant (assuming you have at least two years' service. If you have not, you will be entitled to nothing.) The employer is very unlikely to back down and say 'Oh, OK, stay where you are then.'

We are being made redundant, we are half way through our notice period.

Guest101

MRJOL wrote: »

We are being made redundant, we are half way through our notice period.

But if you are being paid to travel (ie travel is in your working hours!) then what's the problem? You're being paid to sit on a bus.

DD265

As the travel is within your normal working hours and they are presumably covering all of the costs by having you collected, transported, and returned afterwards, I think your refusal would be unreasonable.

It's only for a few weeks and you can read a book or whatever on the mini bus - surely that's not a bad thing?