A query on work & parking

[Andehh]

I post out of curiosity more then anything, as I have heard through the grape vine this situation exists at a local-ish (major) company.

Say your place of work decide to build additional offices on the work carpark, to expand. They put in place a park & ride scheme that now takes 30mins+ to get onto & off site.

You now need to get up 45 mins early (gotta wait for the bus...) & get home 45 mins later due to your place of work making the decision to sacrifice employee's time over their expansion.

Where would the law stand? Are there any limitations on situations like this regarding whats ''reasonable''?

[Andehh]

Said company is big with say 500-1000 people effected by this, it is fairly close to a city centre - close enough to not have on street parking sufficiently near by but not so close that the bus depot is next door.

As I said, not me affected, but one I am curious about as to where the middle ground of fair/reasonable/legal is and how far a company could push it with changing the default working practises that had been in place for ?years ?months.

Edited by Andehh on Friday 9th December 08:31

[Andehh]

tigger1 said:

Out of interest, which town or city? 45 minutes seems a long bus ride into a town centre.

45mins is just me going for the worse case scenario for what it would have been for someone living in my neck of the words. 20min actual bus journey (inc bus sat waiting before it can leave), 10 min potential wait for the next bus, 10min further to walk from the bus drop off point to some of the offices on site. 5-10 mins for finding parking & walking to bus stop at actual parking area.

Thanks all for the replies, just curious to see what the general consensus was!