Nestlé's move from Croydon to Gatwick leaves caterers in hot water

“These members of staff will be transfered to Baxter Storey via TUPE, meaning new employer has to honour old employers contract. The employees need to look at their contracts of employment and see if there is a mobility clause written into it. If there is the staff will probably have to shoulder the costs, however a mobility clause can be gotten around as the law sometimes doesn't accept them and sees them as unacceptable i.e. It would be unreasonable to expect staff to move to Scotland for instance. Mobility clause just makes your cause a whole lot more difficult it doesn't mean your cause is lost, you do however have to prove that the mobility clause is unreasonalbe. If there isn't a mobility clause, most firms offer a relocation package which involves some form of incentives and/or remuneration if they do not and you can prove this move is unreasonalbe/feesible due to loss of money, time, need to move house and/or family commitments and cannot talk your employers round to remuneration you are entitled to redundancy. The law is on your side, mobility clause or not, look into it and good luck”

“This is always a problem when organisations relocate the ancillary staff are often forgotten and lets be truthful many are ignored because the employer knows that they can replace them locally. Loyalty to employee's is often lacking these days the term Human Resources says a lot about what employers really think about it's employees these days.”

“jackhall1, sadly big business never operates like that any more (or very rarely). Being cynical, Nestle care about the lowest price possible for the required service. From a corporate level their contract is with baxter and they don't really care who baxter provides to do the job. This is backed up by the comment provided by Nestle's spokesman.

I am not a fan of unions, but in this case I am glad that one is involved. Sadly for part time staff, it is unlikely that pay will be increased to cover such a high incremental cost. In fact, you may even find that wages are slightly lower in the Crawley area. I would have thought that employment rights and benefits would be transferred across when the move from ISS to Baxter took place, so it is outragous to say leave and you get nothing.

At a minimum they should be offered generous redundancy but ultimately everything depends on their employment contracts. A quick search on google using "rights if relocated for work" provides a whole host of useful links and information. It appears that the key is whether your contract has a 'mobility clause'.

Good luck to the workers and I hope things are sorted in their favour. Sadly, I do not see this resulting in increased pay to move to Gatwick. An annual season ticket from East Croydon to Gatwick is currently £2,196 pa. Obviously this comes out of net pay so a larger increase required to cover it.”

“nestle should step in and inform baxter storey that if this dispute is not sorted to the catering staffs advantage they will lose the contract and the staff will be employed in-house the alternative will be baxter storey employing third rate catering staff who have to be constantly told to wash there hands after using the toilet jackhall1”