Re: Sustainable Transport for Companies?

<leandr42@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Jan 31, 11:43 am, Jon <jonathan.gur...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Unless their contracts specify that they are entitled to make business
journeys by car, their employer could refuse to pay car mileage for
journeys which could reasonably have been made with a pool bicycle
instead, and could probably refuse to pay for time wasted through
insisting on using a car when a bicycle would have been faster. An
employee might be able to insist that they were fit to drive but
physically incapable of cycling, but they would have to be classified
as being disabled to have this treated as a "reasonable adjustment".

I doubt if an employee could be penalised for using a car if their
contract didn't say anything about means of transport. However,
there's no reason why those who use the bikes couldn't be given a
bonus of some sort.

They wouldn't be penalised for using a car, they would be penalised for
timewasting. Once a year, I and many colleagues make work experience
visits to various parts of the local area. I almost always travel by car
as I need to make the visit during a free period, when I am not
teaching.

If I were to catch the train into Bolton then I would be wasting school
time. Likewise, I have known staff be criticised because they got stuck
in traffic when making a visit to somewhere on the local high street,
all of four hundred yards away.

Cheers,
Luke


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