An employee is employed as a speech therapist at a hospital in Devizes. His employer sends him to Reading for 3 days a week to supervise a new department there. He expects to be in Reading for 18 months. A deduction is due for the cost of travel from his home to Reading but not for the cost of travel from his home to Devizes.
Devizes remains his permanent workplace. He attends it regularly
to perform the duties of his employment and that attendance is not
to perform a task of limited duration or for a temporary purpose,
see
EIM32065.
Reading is capable of being a temporary workplace because his
attendance is for a limited duration, see
EIM32075. Reading is not excluded from
being a temporary workplace by the further rule explained in
EIM32080. His attendance is in the
course of a period of continuous work (he works there for 40% or
more of his working time) but that period does not exceed 24
months. So Reading is a temporary workplace.
