working from home contract employer wants me to go in every day

hyubh

gettingtheresometime wrote: »

Yes the travelling is a pita but I think it would be seen as a reasonable request & the OP is throwing their toys out of the pram

On the details given, it isn't the OP throwing their toys out of the pram.

Lexie_M

acas said I can claim for wrongful dismissal
my understanding is that even if they dismissed me they still should have given me a notice period

discat11

ACAS know what they're doing in my experience.

The travel to & from work time should have been accounted for by your employer, I find it unbelievable that a 5 hour commute isn't recompensed for -after all,few people unless on an enormous salary would surely commute that much a week?

Whilst reasonability is relative to the person in some ways, the key point is here is how much 'reasonable' has been accepted as being before this recent change -i.e. it was one day-ish a month.

Whilst it might be argued a handover needs to incur more visits to the office a 20 fold increase to the norm cannot be considered reasonable.

The employer is taking the !!!! in this case and they know it.

happyandcontented

OP did you get it sorted out?

jobbingmusician

I do hope the OP takes this to tribunal. The employer seems to have summarily dismissed them without following any recognised disciplinary procedure, and it should be an easy win!

xapprenticex

going by the above, it seems obvious.

they have taken away responsibilities naturally so they can:

A: Make you do something for the months salary by making you go in
B: Leave you at home to potentially do other jobs/go interviews/ do nothing.

This is from their perspective, its a time waste but i can see why they are doing it if you wish to stay your notice when you have very little to do now. Probably nature of handing in notice when */+working from home.


EDIT: didnt notice a page two..

Lexie_M

Thank you all. I was waiting until they paid me to see how much I would get (only a few days pay) and have now started a case with ACAS. I will let you know how it goes.

74jax

Thanks for coming back and updating.

Lexie_M

Hi all. Just another quick update: the employers have refused to come to an agreement or even consider it so this is now going to the tribunal.

Lexie_M

hello all

just wanted to let you know that I won the employment tribunal case and have now been paid the full notice period

thank you for all the advice and support