Should they make me redundant
Dsharris
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Hi all. I am lorry driver and I work for a company in Rainham Essex yet I live in Barnsley South Yorkshire. On Friday I park the lorry in Barnsley and then drive it down to Essex on the Monday so the lorry is parked in Barnsley over the weekend and when ever I'm on holiday etc. My employer is now wanting to have the lorry parked in Rainham over the weekends and is expecting me to commute every week. This is a 194mile each way journey. I believe that this is an unreasonable change to my job and that they should make me redundant? Any help with this would be gratefully appreciated as I have a meeting with the boss on Monday
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Where you live is not your employer's concern.0
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Are you simply using the vehicle for a commute between Barnsley and Rainham? Who pays for the fuel? Do you pick up goods/jobs on Monday and spend the rest of the week distributing them or are you in Rainham every day? Why doesn't the company want to make use of the vehicle during your holiday periods?0
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You either live in Yorkshire and choose to work for a company in Essex or work for a company in Essex and choose to live in Yorkshire. Whichever it is, makes no difference about your job as a lorry driver, there is still a job therefore no redundancyIf you are querying your Council Tax band would you please state whether you are in England, Scotland or Wales0
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I took the job when they were based in barnsley, they relocated to essex and made everyone redundant except me as they decided to pay for parking in barnsley for me and I have been doing this for 11 years0
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I took the job when they were based in barnsley, they relocated to essex and made everyone redundant except me as they decided to pay for parking in barnsley for me and I have been doing this for 11 years
Unless the parking is contractual then you have no reason to be made redundant, and it is a making of your own issue.
Check your contract and tell us.
No need for two threads because you did not like the sound of the first!
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=60820620 -
Hmm, I'm actually wondering if the OP doesn't have a case - a job could be redundant if a location changes and the new distance is unreasonable (which isn't defined as far as I recall, but over an hour extra is often mentioned).0
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Hmm, I'm actually wondering if the OP doesn't have a case - a job could be redundant if a location changes and the new distance is unreasonable (which isn't defined as far as I recall, but over an hour extra is often mentioned).
There is another thread by the same poster about the same subject which had more repliesIf you are querying your Council Tax band would you please state whether you are in England, Scotland or Wales0 -
Unless the parking is contractual then you have no reason to be made redundant, and it is a making of your own issue.
Check your contract and tell us.
No need for two threads because you did not like the sound of the first!
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=6082062
I think if they have been doing this for 11yrs. It could be argued surely that this would be an implied term or condition.
Given they made everyone redundant in Barnsley and rehired in Essex I think a precedent has been set and it could be argued that your job role in Barnsley is no longer required even if a new driver is needed in Essex..
Have you got a union, or try CAB. Also check your home insurance for legal cover.0 -
Where is the HGV licence attached to? As a HGV needs an overnight base for it's operator's licence?0
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