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$10 a day to cycle to work

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    #2
    Tenigate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 849 ✭✭✭Tenigate


    DeepBlue wrote: »
    This guy's got the right idea!! There's definite benefits to energy levels cycling to work.

    If an employee is paid to cycle to work and is in a bad accident, is the employer liable?


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    Kavrocks
    Registered Users Posts: 2,345 ✭✭✭Kavrocks


    Tenigate wrote: »
    If an employee is paid to cycle to work and is in a bad accident, is the employer liable?
    I think it's worse that this is the first thing to be thought of when an incentive like this is mentioned.


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    Subcomandante Marcos
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,683 ✭✭✭Subcomandante Marcos


    Tenigate wrote: »
    If an employee is paid to cycle to work and is in a bad accident, is the employer liable?

    If they are it's ridiculous because the same argument could be expanded to the bike to work scheme which is a benefit which is given to people and thwir employers to promote cycling to work.


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    1bryan
    Registered Users Posts: 815 ✭✭✭1bryan


    Tenigate wrote: »
    If an employee is paid to cycle to work and is in a bad accident, is the employer liable?

    wow, what a comment


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    fleet
    Registered Users Posts: 546 ✭✭✭fleet


    In Japan your employer is liable from the time you leave your house to go to work.

    I don't know the situation in Ireland.


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    Alek
    Registered Users Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭Alek


    The hse pay mileage for using your bicycle for work purposes.

    They did, but then WishboneAsh broke the system.


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    TallGlass
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    fleet wrote: »
    In Japan your employer is liable from the time you leave your house to go to work.

    I don't know the situation in Ireland.

    The situation is no one is responsible for anything.


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    CantGetNoSleep
    Registered Users Posts: 7,224 ✭✭✭CantGetNoSleep


    In Belgium you get 23 cents per km in tax deduction for cycling to work (or 500 EUR per year if you do a short 10km round trip every day) - although they don't exactly have an equivalent to BTW


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    Rogue-Trooper
    Registered Users Posts: 1,854 ✭✭✭Rogue-Trooper


    Have just sent that link to our CEO and HR dept!! :D


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    jjpep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 658 ✭✭✭jjpep


    Tenigate wrote: »
    If an employee is paid to cycle to work and is in a bad accident, is the employer liable?
    How about if your employer provides a parking space and you have a car crash on the way to work? Wonder has this ever being testes in court?


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    loyatemu
    Registered Users Posts: 14,848 ✭✭✭✭loyatemu


    jjpep wrote: »
    Wonder has this ever being testes in court?

    I'm not sure what kind of court you're thinking of here :eek:


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    Weepsie
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 20,049 Mod ✭✭✭✭Weepsie


    Tenigate wrote: »
    If an employee is paid to cycle to work and is in a bad accident, is the employer liable?

    It's not being paid to cycle, it's being incentivized. They give you the option, if you decide to cycle, they'll reward you. It's still up to the individual


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    irelandrover
    Registered Users Posts: 3,715 ✭✭✭irelandrover


    How do they track if you cycle to work?

    I know a company that offered points in their company shop if you cycled to work. Every time you cycled you gained points. You had a sensor on your bike which registered as you entered the property. However people were just leaving their bikes outside work, getting teh bus there and doing the last 100 metres by bike. The company quickly stopped the promotion.


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    Rogue-Trooper
    Registered Users Posts: 1,854 ✭✭✭Rogue-Trooper


    Rogue-Trooper wrote: »
    Have just sent that link to our CEO and HR dept!! :D

    Just got a one line reply from our CEO......

    https://www.cheapflights.com/flights-to-auckland/

    At least he has a sense of humour! :pac:


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    Steoller
    Registered Users Posts: 182 ✭✭Steoller


    Tenigate wrote: »
    DeepBlue wrote: »
    This guy's got the right idea!! There's definite benefits to energy levels cycling to work.

    If an employee is paid to cycle to work and is in a bad accident, is the employer liable?
    Commuting is not usually the employer's responsibility, unless (a) you are travelling from your home to a site that is not your usual place of work, or (b) you are doing so in a company provided vehicle.


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    Thinkingaboutit
    Registered Users Posts: 2,186 ✭✭✭Thinkingaboutit


    irelandrover wrote: »
    How do they track if you cycle to work?

    I know a company that offered points in their company shop if you cycled to work. Every time you cycled you gained points. You had a sensor on your bike which registered as you entered the property. However people were just leaving their bikes outside work, getting teh bus there and doing the last 100 metres by bike. The company quickly stopped the promotion.

    Using the bus instead of cycling? Some are masochistic.


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