Moving location employee rights

[5yearstobuyatvr]

My friend in his 60s is a steel fabricator. His companyis moving to leeds about ten miles away. He has no written contract of employment. Should his employer pay him for extra travel costs. and what happens if he doesnt want to travel?

[Muntu]

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Employment/Employees/E...

[JustinP1]

If his employer moved closer, should he volunteer the saved travelling costs back to his employer?

[5yearstobuyatvr]

You must be joking, that wouldnt happen.

JustinP1 said:

If his employer moved closer, should he volunteer the saved travelling costs back to his employer?

[JustinP1]

5yearstobuyatvr said:

You must be joking, that wouldnt happen.

JustinP1 said:

If his employer moved closer, should he volunteer the saved travelling costs back to his employer?

Exactamundo.

So why should it be the other way around?

The bottom line is sometimes businesses need to move for business reasons. If they are moving many miles away you can argue you are being made redundant. If not though, if the only factor is that it costs a little more in traveling then you need to suck it up.

[Audicab]

We have just moved offices about 15 miles away, we took the view that we wanted to keep all the staff and keep them happy so for 6 months we are covering all travel costs. There is no legal obligation to do this but if staff don't want to travel they can take redundancy.

There is lots of info available online.

[Jasper Gilder]

It is unlawful to fail to provide written particulars of employment. Oddly enough the employer has a period of grace to so it - but it'd weeks not months or years.

Just an aside