Job is moving

messrs

my company are based on south side of city( close to town) and have been for number for years.
we were told just before our xmas break up that they hve decided to move premises , and wil be moving by end of jan/early feb, they are moving us out to Swords which is huge distance from where we are now!
anyone go through this b4? can they just tell us there moving and thats it, if we want job we have to move, or are we entitled to some sort of re-location money?

spoonface

You're entitled to quit. It's not convenient but it's still in Dublin.

messrs

yeah i no its still in dub and i should be glad i have job and all that, it just sucks known i will have to bus 2 hours in mrn to get bus to work and same home in eve
and like i said i no im lucky to have job but just wondering if they could just decide to move us like that, when it states location in our contract

RuggieBear

my job "moved" from Dublin to Belfast. It was take it or take a pink slip.

Sleepy

Can you move to that side of the city?

messrs

Just bought a house on the south side of the city
guess cud be worse, prev poster said his job moved to belfast,

mood

messrs wrote: »

Just bought a house on the south side of the city
guess cud be worse, prev poster said his job moved to belfast,

It is bad form. It will affect a lot of people. I'm sure they could have got a place near the old place at the moment. But a job is a job so stick it out until the economy pick up and you can change job.

messrs

we have jst been taken over by UK company and guys from UK office fly over once a month and they dont like coming across city in our traffic so they makin us move close to airport so its handy for them when they visit

mood

messrs wrote: »

we have jst been taken over by UK company and guys from UK office fly over once a month and they dont like coming across city in our traffic so they makin us move close to airport so its handy for them when they visit

Like I say bad form! In the long run they will loose good staff. Hardly beneficial to the company.

InReality

check your contract.
its possible although unlikely to get some compenstation for such a move.

i did in my last job but that was more a goodwill gesture by the company AFAIR.

The_Conductor

10 years ago the company I was working for moved from Stillorgan to Swords. Anyone who agreed to move with their jobs was given a temporary inducement of

1. 50 toll tokens per month
2. £100 shopping voucher in lieu of petrol or other additional travel expenses per month
3. A one off lumpsum of £2000 at the end of the second year in Swords, if we were still employed by the company (at which time 1 & 2 above also ceased).

We were involved in outsourced technical support and had a 200% staff turnover (average length of employ just over 5 months)- there were very very few people still around at the end of the 2 years.

The jobs were relatively low skilled, but involved a lot of language skills, and were by their nature high stress with a ridiculous burn-out rate. The pay wasn't great- these inducements were what kept many people from jumping ship. We could jump ship very easily at the time- you don't have that option now.......

messrs

we have already been told not getting anything except the pleasure of keeping our jobs!! i think they know that given the current climate ppl have no choice but to go with them , if it as few years ago and more jobs about , dont think they wud be treating us like this.