Contract Management

Archive for July, 2009

This is on behalf of my husband: He has worked in a local garage for nearly 7 yrs now and he is having problems with the management, the thing is his contract is to work in our local branch but as needs arise he can be moved to another branch to cover. His boss is now trying to make him work in one of the other branchs which is about 45 mins drive away, the thing is my husband has no transport the trains and buses run too late for his working hours and the family car I need to travel to my job which is 20 mins drive away, I would walk but I am 5 months pregnant and to get a taxi would cost us an extra £60 – £70 a week.
My husbands boss has told him he has to start work at the other branch from Monday we have wrote a letter stating why this is impossible and we have made loads of phone calls but they dont seem to care. The other point I should make is there are 2 other lads working with my husband at the moment one with no family ties and his own transport and the other who travels from were they want my husband to work.

We think they want to get rid of my husband but they have no legal reason to sack him and they dont want to pay him redundancy which he has said he will take.

What are my husbands options please
We have been trying to get into Citizen advice all week and they keep passing us from one depo to the other, We have a number for ACAS which he is going to call tonight and see what they say. He asked them if they could come to some arrangement with him over travel but all they said was it is not our problem if you cant get here. Make your wife walk or bike. yeah like thats going to happen at 5 months pregnant
I cant get a lift into work from anyone else cause they all live miles away from my home, We dont have an extra £60 for taxi’s for me then extra petrol money for my husband we will be working for nothing and buses dont run up to my place of work.
I understand that needs have arised but this does not give them the right to pick my husband the only mechanic in this branch with no transport and make him go there on a permanent basis in my opinion they are discriminating against him.

Is he being asked to work from the other branch PERMANENTLY? Because if so, this is AGAINST what his contract says. His contract says that he may need to work in other branches as the need may arise – not permanently. So, if they did want to move him to another location permanently, they would have to give him 30 days notice of this in writing as this is a change to the conditions of his contract – not just tell him to go on Monday.

So, if they gave him notice of the change and he didn’t want to accept it, then he is redundant. However, redundancy only applies if the distance that the employer is now making him travel is "unreasonable". There is no definition of "unreasonable" – it depends on people’s own personal circumstances. You can read more about it at the link below.

However, if the move is not supposed to be permanent, then this obviously doesn’t apply as his contract states that he can work from other branches on occassion.

You mention discrimination. This is in NO WAY discrimination. What would be discrimination is if the Managers deliberately picked someone else to go because your husband has a pregnant wife. Employers are required to treat all employees the same regardless of their individual circumstances.

One thing that you don’t seem to take into account is whether your husband’s employer – either since he has been working there or when he was applying to work there – has ever asked if he has his own transport. Usually, this is something that most employers ask as part of the application process, to make sure that you can get to where they want you, and so that you’re not relying on public transport. If they had asked, and he has ever answered yes, then they do have a right to expect him to have a car for his use. The fact that the family only has one car and you need it doesn’t come into the equation.

Basically, legislation is somewhat sympathetic towards parents and to expectant mothers, but usually not to expectant fathers. So I would be surprised if you really get anywhere with this.

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In the construction work of housing in Seuneddon, the management is very weak in imposing sanction when the progress made by the contractor began to deviate as it *exceeds the critical points* as stated in the contract

In the construction work of housing in Seuneddon, the management is very weak in imposing sanction when the progress made by the contractor began to deviate as it *fell flat on the scale of an appropriate rate of completion* as stated in the contract

I need to find a solution to managing massivie unthinkable amounts of data, project sales annually and for terms of contract, track commissions from sales, and keep track of similar but different contracts. I am merely an accountant with hardly any computer skills except for being great at Excel. Is anyone up for discussing different solutions? I work for a small business owner, so Oracle or MySql would not be an option, but I am thinking that the database if required, needs to be multi user friendly, and interactive for reports. I am completely maxed out using spreadsheets and the potential for loss is huge, as well as for human errors. Please help!

For a project of this scope, you should consider hiring an expert as the possibility of failure is high.

I have a couple of recommendations:
MySQL is completely free ($0.00) and would be one of my recommendations as this will allow for many users, millions of transactions.

Access is also a possibility although it is not exactly multi user friendly. There are definitely limits on how much data Access can use; there are basically no limits on MySQL as large companies like the one I work at have billions of records.

You may also want to consider some of the open source Customer Relationship Management that are freely available.