Change of permanent workplace help!!!

I’ve been asked by my employer to cover for someone who’s been promoted for a few months until they advertise and fill the vacant post. I don’t mind doing this to help out. It is at another office.

As it will be a temporary workplace for a couple of months – am I entitled to claim mileage and travelling time to the other office? The reason I ask is in the past the employer have changed the contract and then the employee can only claim the difference in mileage – i think its called disturbance.

Depends on your contract I would assume, if it is considered a permanent change then usually not as that is your workplace.

A normal contract would have a working location clause, normally along the lines of your normal place not being the only place you can be asked to work, so probably not but check your contract

Thanks. It is only a temporary arrangement until they fill the post – thats what Ive been told anyway. Im going to try and claim the mileage.

I think for tax purposes you can only claim the mileage and allowance from your usual place of work. Not from home.

My contract states something about working within ten miles of the current location.

I reckon it would depend if it takes you towards or away from work, if you would normally cover part of the journey, then it might fall foul of this:

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/manuals/eimanual/EIM32300.htm

however if its more than ten miles

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/manuals/eimanual/EIM32306.htm

Our contracts have a clause about occasionally having to work for extended periods in other locations including overseas……

Ask them for some more money ‘to save all that mileage stuff’ for each month you’re there

Might be easier to administrate a temporary uplift than a monthly expense

From a tax perspective they could pay you 45ppm (or 25ppm after 10k) for the whole journey, there and back – and it’d be tax-free.

From a company perspective they’ll probably offer less.

But ou can claim (the tax back) on the difference between the two.

Might be easier to administrate a temporary uplift than a monthly expense

But you’d definitely pay tax/NI on this (and they’d also pay NI), whereas on legitimate you don’t – so cheaper all round.