On 7 Oct, 14:11, John B wrote:
GMaps reckons 1h24 drive from Stansted to Gatwick, and 0h57 drive from
Upminster to Neasden. I'm not sure that puts the two in radically
different brackets. If I took a job that featured a daily 15min
commute each way from home, and was relocated without consultation to
a job that featured an hour each way, I'd be livid.

Perhaps you would , but firms are perfectly entitled to shift people
around so long as their new location is within a reasonable commuting
distance. 3 hours each way is not a reasonable commute , 1 hour is and
when I had the misfortune of having to use the tube to get to work I'd
think myself lucky if it only took an hour in the rush hour.

If, having taken that role, my employers had instead required me to
work a regimented shift pattern on a weekly basis including
nightshifts and subjected to a rigorous physical fitness and alcohol
testing regime, that would have been constructive dismissal.

We're not talking about a complete change of working conditions,
simplhy a different place to book on. If people in this country are so
bloody bone idle they'd want to go on strike about having to travel a
few extra miles to work it rather demonstrates why half a million jobs
have gone to Polish immigrants in the last few years,.

B2003