Advice on company relocation please

[Farah]

Hi All,

I work for a registered charity, which deals with adults who have any form of sensory, learning or physical disabilities.

Our centre will be relocating in approximately a year due to an expiring lease.

The relocation will be in the radias of 5 to 15 miles from our current position.

As a company we need to inform our empoyees (carers) of this change, we have already predicted that there will be a lot of resistance.

Do we need to provide for travel expenses?
Redundency packages if the employees are not willing to accept this change?
Change in contract?

Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

 

[bwglaw]

Do you have a 'mobility clause' in your contract of employment?

Once I know this I can advise further

Jonathan

 

[peter@CDN]

Hello, I do not know too much about the legal side of things but I may be able to help with your communications when your look to move.
Peter Haigh www.cd-networks.co.uk

 

[Antonia @limeone.com]

and so you need to examine your employment contracts but also look at each case individually to see the pattern of travel for each employee, taking into account home responsibilities, mobility, circumstances etc.

All of these relocation issues require careful handling and the tribunal cases involving relocation have generally been over the reasonable test for travel distances, so investigate public transport arrangements and times of journeys for all affected staff.

The main aim is to preserve the existing workforce and also not lose the goodwill of staff so consultation and neogtiation is core. In some cases this means assisted travel, such as minibus/taxis in other it is a small pay increase, in some setting up a care share arrangement.

If you require any further help please let me know.

 

[sjbeale]

Technically this will be a redundancy situation as you are relocating and you need to follow the correct procedure of consulting with your staff to see if they are prepared to travel. If not you will have to consider making them compulsorily redundant.

As a sweetner you could offer travel expenses for a period of time to phase in the change then you wouldn't have to make them redundant if they accept this.

SJ Beale FCIPD

 

[Alpha]

Do we need to provide for travel expenses?

If you do offer travelling expenses please remember that this would be home to work travel and therefore taxable.

 

[sofy60]

that is funny.



I hadnt thought of that..