Salary Linked Parking Charges

polarbear79

I work in a hospital. The parking is run by a private company.
The charge for the permit (not the actual daily parking charges) is linked to salary.
The per annum difference between the lowest and highest salary bracket is £155.

My question is, is this really legal? How is it justifiable, as it is ostensibly a form of tax?
I don't get charged more for a banana or a cinema ticket based on what I earn for a living.
Whether I can afford it is 1. none of the parking companies business and 2. Got nothing to do with my salary as what I can afford is based also on my outgoing commitments.

Essentially I am looking to hear if this is actually legal, and a cogent arguement as to why this is fair.

Thanks

Quentin

This forum is the wrong place for this (its for problems associated with private parking tickets)


The charges you pay will be agreed between you/your union and your Trust, (happens with lots of Trusts across the country) and nothing to do with the parking company managing the car park

bod1467

Agreed.

You might get better feedback from the Employment forum.

polarbear79

Many thanks

fisherjim

This seems to be the norm in The NHS, certainly in Bucks!

StaffsSW

If you are in Nottingham, then unfortunately it is legal - http://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/transport-parking-and-streets/parking-and-permits/workplace-parking-levy/about-the-workplace-levy/

The_Slithy_Tove

StaffsSW wrote: »

If you are in Nottingham, then unfortunately it is legal - http://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/transport-parking-and-streets/parking-and-permits/workplace-parking-levy/about-the-workplace-levy/

And in such a case, it most certainly is a tax, no matter how they dress it up.

nigelbb

polarbear79 wrote: »

I work in a hospital. The parking is run by a private company.
The charge for the permit (not the actual daily parking charges) is linked to salary.
The per annum difference between the lowest and highest salary bracket is £155.

My question is, is this really legal? How is it justifiable, as it is ostensibly a form of tax?
I don't get charged more for a banana or a cinema ticket based on what I earn for a living.
Whether I can afford it is 1. none of the parking companies business and 2. Got nothing to do with my salary as what I can afford is based also on my outgoing commitments.

Essentially I am looking to hear if this is actually legal, and a cogent arguement as to why this is fair.

Thanks

Some people get paid more than others. Do you think that's justified or legal? It's pretty standard within the NHS to have a salary sacrifice scheme for parking that charges more to those on higher salaries. That seems fair enough to me. Think of parking as an employee benefit linked with salary as part of the total remuneration package..

Half_way

A few things to consider - to who is the payment made, is it the NHS trust or the parking company, that is if the NHS trust has a parking company acting as its agents in its car parks?

If you or someone else breaks one of the parking rules, what happens, do you get a yellow sticker from a Parking company demanding that you pay then £extortionate amount, followed by a letter form the Parking company, or does the NHS trust deduct the sum from your wages no questions asked?

how does the Parking company get hold of the Registered keepers details? is it via the DVLA , or does the NHS trust hand it to the parking company on a plate?

Quentin

The OP took the tip and has duplicated his thread in the employment forum, so may not return to see the posts here after #4


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