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Electric Car charging points...

Anna Morris

Hi All,

This week one of our employees came to work and plugged her electric car in (via a wire through a window into our reception area). 

The CEO contacted me (having seen the wire when she arrived) to ask me what our obligations are in this regard. I told her none, we are no more obliged to charge an employee's car than we are to provide a petrol pump. However, we are a technology business and we are very keen to attract (and retain) 'Millennial's', so it has made my mind focus towards what we should consider in the future.

While we only currently have one employee with an electric car, I am conscious this is likely to increase fairly quickly over time.

We don't have proper charging points on-site and it is not practical (or safe) to have wires draped through windows.

I'm interested to know what other SME's are doing about this (if anything) and whether the wider Community believes this will soon become a deciding factor when employees are job hunting.

I would be particularly keen to have a chat with someone who has invested in charging points to hear their experiences.

I can honestly say this hadn't actually crossed my mind until this week....every day's a school day in HR!

Any input would be greatly appreciated!

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  • Whilst I admire her green credentials it doesn't give her the right to act in this way. Aside from possible H&S issues she needs a quiet word. It is one thing to charge your phone at work, but charging ones car is whole different and potentially expensive ball game. Do you have a petrol/diesel pump installed in the office car park which is available free of use to employee's? If not then what made her think it was OK to charge her car!? I suggest you inform her to charge her car overnight at home like any balanced reasonable person would do and avoid creating a precedent. If its a company car then I assume you allow her to claim for the business mileage she undertakes. This is currently set at 4p per mile. I am not aware of any obligation on the part of employers to provide charging points for employees electric cars. However if these are Company cars it would make a nice gesture to provide some proper charging points which can be appropriately monitored and recharged back to employees or perhaps form part of an allowance dependant upon what policy you decide to adopt.
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  • Whilst I admire her green credentials it doesn't give her the right to act in this way. Aside from possible H&S issues she needs a quiet word. It is one thing to charge your phone at work, but charging ones car is whole different and potentially expensive ball game. Do you have a petrol/diesel pump installed in the office car park which is available free of use to employee's? If not then what made her think it was OK to charge her car!? I suggest you inform her to charge her car overnight at home like any balanced reasonable person would do and avoid creating a precedent. If its a company car then I assume you allow her to claim for the business mileage she undertakes. This is currently set at 4p per mile. I am not aware of any obligation on the part of employers to provide charging points for employees electric cars. However if these are Company cars it would make a nice gesture to provide some proper charging points which can be appropriately monitored and recharged back to employees or perhaps form part of an allowance dependant upon what policy you decide to adopt.
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