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Re: Parking
By: Fluffykins Date: October 2, 2025, 5:21 pm
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Is where you wish to park part of a public highway or is it a
private road or an unadopted road? If private or unadopted, who
owns it or leases it?
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Re: Parking
By: dannyno Date: October 6, 2025, 7:08 am
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As others have said, there isn't enough information here for
meaningful advice.
What I'm hearing is a sense of injustice: some employees seem to
use this space without any problem, but you (OP) have not only
been told not to use it, but told that doing so would be
contrary to the employee Code of Conduct.
So one question is: what part of the code of conduct are you
being threatened with? Failure to follow a reasonable
management instruction is a common provision in such a code. Or
perhaps the code even has a provision dealing with car parking.
Either way, we need to know what it says and what exactly has
been said (verbally? in writing?).
Is there anything in your contract of employment relating to car
parking? Or anything in corporate policies about it? Employers
have wide latitude for controlling employer behaviour
contractually. There is nothing in principle, as far as I know,
that would prevent them from instructing employees where they
were allowed to park during working hours, and they may be able
to do so outside working hours if doing so would damage or be a
risk to the company somehow. But we don't know whether there
are real issues about parking where you want to park, or whether
management are making it up for some reason.
If there are lots of employees, I could imagine car parking in
the area being controversial with local residents or visitors,
and complaints from them might be a reason for a policy. And it
seems to be that it wouldn't be an unreasonable management
instruction to ask employees not to park in such a way as to
cause complaints.
And these other car parkers? Do they have allocated spaces too,
or not? I could imagine a company telling employees to use
their private car park during working hours, if they have a
space allocated, so as not to take spaces away from either
members of the public or other employees who don't have an
allocated space.
"Unfairness" isn't necessarily something you can take an
employer to employment tribunal over. Not all unfairness is
unlawful - you'd need to show that you've been treated unfairly
because of a protected characteristic. For example, being able
to park outside the car park but closer to the exit might be a
reasonable adjustment due to disability.
But it could be grounds for internal grievance if a policy is
being applied inconsistently (but we don't know if there is such
a written policy, or that it is being applied inconsistently -
the sparse info provided leaves this open).
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