Parking fines - who pays

Exodi

To be honest, even as an employee, it would be very, very, very rare for an employer to pick up the bill for this.

I've had about a fair few parking fines in my time (a deadly cocktail of tight time-frames, high profile customers and infamous London parking availability) and I was only able to get my employer to pay -one- ever (and that was one I was explicitly told to park somewhere). All the others are pretty cut and dry.

mimiduck

Thank you for your comments. I do agree that usually it's the driver that would pay it's just that sometimes there really isn't anywhere to park. I guess the question is whether refusing jobs is an option.. I have always wondered how other delivery companies do it, I've seen plenty of vans parked on even double reds..

Undervalued

mimiduck wrote: »

Thank you for your comments. I do agree that usually it's the driver that would pay it's just that sometimes there really isn't anywhere to park. I guess the question is whether refusing jobs is an option.. I have always wondered how other delivery companies do it, I've seen plenty of vans parked on even double reds..

Sadly plenty of people break the law in all kinds of ways but that doesn't make it legal!

An employer cannot require an employee to break the law as part of their work. The employee can (and should) refuse. If the employer were to take disciplinary action and dismiss as a result it would automatically be unfair dismissal. The normal qualifying period of two years employment to claim unfair dismissal would not apply.

Although that is the theory (and the legal position) obviously in the real world it is not quite as easy. All I can suggest is parking somewhere legal and walking to the address. That takes as long as it reasonably takes, log the details to be on the safe side and see what the employer says.

montyrebel

your husband needs to park somewhere legal and carry the item to its destination if he can and not park illegally, he broke the law he pays the fine

TELLIT01

He needs to park in the closest legal spot and take the deliveries from there. If he can't make the required number of deliveries in a day due to that he needs to take it up with the company he is doing the work for.