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My husband's company car is leased, he has just received notifcation of a parking fine, occuring on 25th July at 9.57 am - Brewery Wharf. No idea where it is and he is pretty sure that he was in the office at the time, and travelled to Bournemouth later that day. There is no Brewery Wharf in Bournemouth.
Now it seems that his company have taken an age to notify him of this and not even given him the chance to either pay within the first 14days if he did indeed incur this but are going to deduct the sum from his wages which now stands at £117!!!!!
Any ideas what we can do? Obviously we need to see a copy of the ticket to ensure that it complys and to verify the location, but how do we stop them from taking this money from his wages.
Your husband will need to revisit his Contract of Employment and or Employee Handbook to determine whether his employer is permitted to make such a deduction. There are very clear rules on what can and can't be taken without his express permission.
He will cetainly need to inform Payroll in writing that he is not prepared to accept such a deduction at least until he is able to confirm that the money is owed. Obtaining the ticket is a natural starting point as it will confirm the date, time and location of when it was issued. If as he says then the ticket was never issued to his vehicle, and he can demonstrate categorically that he was not there, then whoever has been daft enough to pay the fine already (either the employer or lease company) will be the ones with a battle to have the payment returned.
Thanks Sidewinder, pretty much as I thought! Like most large companies the right hand dont know what the left hand is doing. It has been excaberated by the length of time that it has taken for him to be notified!
Have just found out that this is UKCPS Ltd, who do not seem to have the best track record!!!
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Your husband will probably have a battle and will need to have an understanding employer. UKCPS will almost certainly not let this drop unless there is absolutely no doubt that they are in the wrong, and the employer will receive increasingly threatening letters from debt collectors etc.
Of course if the ticket shows that the car to which it was issued was not your husband's, it may be a case of cloning (if for example the ticket was issued to a car at Brewery Wharf in Leeds and your husband's vehicle was on the south coast) then this could be a case of cloning which should be reported to the police.
Parking fine - Lease Car
, occuring on 25th July at 9.57 am - Brewery Wharf. No idea where it is and he is pretty sure that he was in the office at the time, and travelled to Bournemouth later that day. There is no Brewery Wharf in Bournemouth.
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