This is potentially a Major Problem for those of us who employ PA’s (personal assistant’s) and say for instance, employ two over 30 and then employ a third PA who is under 30, or put on our insurance anyone under 30, meaning anyone driving our car will have to register with Drive Smart, with their mobile phone.
Now this is going to be a major change to the employment contract of our already employed PA’s, which leaves them with three choices,
1. They accept having to use their phone being connected to the Smart Drive and being constantly monitored while driving for you.
2. Resigning and leaving you short of essential care.
Or 3. Even more worrying, Resigning, leaving you short of essential care and then claiming Constructive Dismissal and suing you for changing their contract.
This could also cause you problems with your Local Council for your Self-Directed Support contract/payments for employing your own PA’s.
Did Motability never consider having a full and open consultation with their customers before all these major compulsive changes, Removing of large saloon/estate cars, so called Luxury Makes, adding Smart Drive, Vat on AP’s, Reducing Grants from Motability the charity but created by Motability Operations(for cars and disability car equipment) Reducing the amount extended leases to five years and Millage Charges and tyer reduction( sorry for the ever increasing edits, as I keep remembering even more adverse changes – do add on anything that I forgot), to pre- foresee these Major problems that they were creating for their customers, who Motability were set up to assist and help their customers to be mobile and independent member’s of society.
As I have said before my good friend who used to be our MP and a Cabinet Minister, always said he judged the strength of feeling, by how big his inbox of complaint’s was. We are not clay pigeons and need to start shooting back (not literally of course), at these people (Motability, the Government and other parties who instigated the changes)who are harming our quality of life for their own financial gain.
