Here’s this week’s selection of questions and answers received via email and my social media platforms. If you have a question, write down the brief facts and email me. I try to answer as many as I can in the time that I have available.
Mileage expenses
Q. If I may also as a question, I have recently started to incur petrol expenses as I now travel every alternate Sunday just over 100 miles round trip. My boss was perturbed at paying .45p per mile. Can she pay lower than that?
A. Yes, but generally employers pay 45p per mile and this is the figure used by many when calculating tax on business mileage.
Is this a significant change to your terms of employment? Check your contract to see if there is a clause covering this additional travel for work. If not, you should consider negotiating with your employer so you are not out of pocket. The only word of warning; if you have been employed less than 2 years you may be left with the choice - take what’s offered or find a job elsewhere.
Vaccination
Q. Hi. I am a support worker for a lady with a brain injuries for the past 4 1/2 years and been a career for 26years, At the start of February I got a call off management telling me that I would have to leave on the first of April due to the covid rules with cpc and guv, since then they have changed the rules about it been mandatory, myself and another member of staff took it that we didn't have to leave (nothing said from management since or the letter confirming this as they said we would be receiving. We both have genuine reasons for not wanting to be vaccinated.
All the staff received an email last week asking for medical information which is strange and out the blue. My question is are they able to change policies or my contract so I either have to be vaccinated or leave? Evwn when nhs and nursing homes dont?
A. As it currently stands, new the Regulations requiring mandatory vaccination in a health and social care setting will be revoked as of 15 March. See my previous newsletter. That simply means from 1 April it will not be a legal requirement to be vaccinated for those working in the NHS and social care.
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