http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/6277086.stm

If this happened to me, I'd inform my employer that I would not stop riding and encourage them to fire me.

Not only that, Jacobs Babtie advises governments on how to improve and promote cycling. One of their larger contracts is with Transport For London.

Here's their website (http://www.jacobsbabtie.com/careers/7-1_specialismdetails.aspx?id=5&s=9&c=5&d=774) in which they brag about their "impressive track record in the rapidly developing field of sustainable transport."

Here's their website[/URL] in which they brag about their "impressive track record in the rapidly developing field of sustainable transport."

Classic. Do as I SAY, not as I DO. :(

... Brad

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Here's hoping that they don't ban cycling as part of a new environmental policy. With the way people only read the headlines, it's a possible out come. Or maybe engineers are too important now, like rock stars and movie celebrities, to ride bikes. I guess we'll have to wait and see if there is an anti bicycle article in "The Lancet" to know if there is a ban coming.

Yee hee heee. So, Jacobs Enginering's recommendation to make bicycling safer and reduce fatalities is to ban bicycling.

Put a star on that second-graders paper.

Yeah, I work for a company that makes remote access software but my boss wants people to live locally and come to the office every day.

I doubt this ban has a leg to stand on since employees commute on their own time. If the company were paying them for their commute time it may be different.

Can someone in England please confirm for us if under your local laws a company does in fact have the power to dictate the mode of transport to their employees?

I wonder if the BBC got the story wrong. There's another thread (http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=317756) on this story, and in the Times article, it appears that the ban is only effective while employees are on company business.

I would think that such a ban would be illegal.

I wonder if the BBC got the story wrong. There's another thread (http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=317756) on this story, and in the Times article, it appears that the ban is only effective while employees are on company business.

There was a thread a while back that discussed this very issue. Someone posed the question of whether you could claim mileage on your expense report if you were bicycling rather than using a motor car.

One argument was that employers would not want to condone the use of bicycles for company business because the cost of the lost time was too great. That is a reasonable argument, I suppose. For as much as I love bicycling, an automobile is still faster in most cases.

I doubt this ban has a leg to stand on since employees commute on their own time. ... Bingo!

I doubt this ban has a leg to stand on since employees commute on their own time.

Not sure about the U.K., but here we have "at will" employment laws in some areas. A company in Michigan fired employees that continued to smoke after a deadline was passed. These were employees that only smoked when not at work.

... here we have "at will" employment laws in some areas ...

True. At least in California, anyone can quit a job for any reason, and anyone can be dismissed from a job for any reason other than the usual race/age/sex discrimination.