Access to work

That terrible its time the hospital s got there parking sorted you should not have to pay you don't go for the fun of it 

The nhs are notorious for how bad they treat their staff. Your only as good as long as you turn up and are well. I am sorry your being treated like this. Hugs.xxxx

Thanks Syvli. Don't want special treatment or be different. Just want help during a not so good time.

I wil get better just feeling annoyed at another hurdle to jump.

It might help to look at this another way, moomie... Remember, it is THEIR responsibility to make 'reasonable adjustments' to enable you to work.

If you need disabled parking to get to work, you need disabled parking to get to work. Their renovations don't change your need! Presumably, since your employer provides parking, your disability is already declared and recognised, and this is already recorded as an agreed 'reasonable adjustment'...? So, they are now/currently unable to make the reasonable adjustment they agreed to make. I'd suggest you write to them saying something like the following:

"Dear employer,

You have been providing me with a disabled parking space at X which enables me, as a disabled employee, to come to work in that building. This was agreed as a 'reasonable adjustment' as defined by the Equality Act 2010. I have recently been informed that during the renovation work at X, you are unable to make this agreed adjustment. 

Please can we discuss, as a matter of urgency, what other adjustments you might be able to make, to enable me to come to work during the renovations. [Insert suggestions here if you have any, moomie]. I am concerned that without such reasonable adjustments, it will not be possible for me to work until the renovations are complete.

Yours, moomie"

You might already have ideas for what would help. My list includes:

- Your employer agreeing to pay taxi fares while the building work goes on;

- You working different hours if that would make nearby on-street parking possible;

- You working at home or at another site until the renovations are complete;

- A paid break as soon as you arrive at work, if you can physically manage the walk so long as you have time to recover afterwards;

- You staying off work until the renovations are complete.

I am not an employment specialist, but I strongly recommend you get advice from your Union or some other specialist, if you can. I think all of these would probably be seen, by an employment tribunal if not your managers, as 'reasonable adjustments' - particularly since they are temporary not permanent. 

I know/guess you won't want to 'make a fuss', especially since you are only just back at work, but I suggest you *don't* just 'struggle on', as you are probably inclined to do, because this may well be seen as proof that you actually no longer need any adjustments to enable you to work. You might lose your parking space permanently if you show you can manage without it. It might even make it more difficult to negotiate other adjustments.

What a faff! Sometimes it all feels like such a struggle, doesn't it!

Moo is,

That sounds ridiculous.Mind you hospital parking in my area has always been a nightmare whether you are staff,visitors and even patients.

I think flow 4 has summed it up nicely - this should be a reasonable adjustment,and let's face it it's not a lot to ask.

Good luck and hope you get that rule overturned soon.

Crusee

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