Basically my employer (a multi national corp) has decided that my entire department need to work 50 miles down the road and have generously offered to pay differential mileage allowance of 19p per mile for 2 years.The office we are vacating is on one of the companies sites and is being back filled by another department. Do I have a leg to stand on if I say I don’t want to go?

If your contract lists your place of work – it can’t be changed at will & should be negotiated

In practice – they do what the hell they want

depends on contract but I think if challeneged it would depend on how long the 50 miles takes
would also argue for travel time as pay and 40 p a mile as that is the IR rate as the actual cost of every mile done in a car

adds about an hour on the journey.if I got the travel time as time in work I’d be happy, thats a great idea.

Union????

YOu need proper advice before you agree to anything – and it is helpful if a significant % of the workforce want the same things.

You should be looking not to be disadvantaged in any way. You should get the full costs of the extra travel and the time for that travel

What would they do if you hadn’t got a car?

Get real advice and join a union ( although they won’t be able to do much now as the dispute started before you joined)

Have a look round ACAS and TUC websites – might get some useful info there. Have a good look thru your contract as well

as i understand it, anything over 4 miles and they have to offer redundancy (assuming your contract lists a place of work)

There is no set limit on distance – it requires a “reasonableness” test IIRC

How long have you been there? Redundancy / unfair dismissal is a possibility.

In the union and have been for 24 years, they are toothless so far. Don’t want redundancy (not really,too young) , got nearly 25 years service and of the 20 or so affected reckon 18 or so are not best pleased.

25 yrs service – take redundancy.

If you are unhappy with your local rep ask for the full time officer to be involved

Thought long and hard about redundancy but I’d get a years pay,my pension frozen for 20 odd years and be looking for a job in a depressed marketplace with no degree and no trade to speak of.Definitely will involve the full time rep though.Thanks.