(3 hours ago)N1cholas wrote Booted from the contract because of reliability issues yet they said on their sob story facebook post it was to do with fuel costs, they also want GNE to pay the employees the wages owed by city for the hours worked, the mans evil and doesn't care about HIS employees, i wonder if they did this - Employers must inform/consult staff and share Employee Liability Information (ELI) at least 28 days prior, it sounds like as they were only told a week before, GNE has no liability for them

It seems to me credible that higher fuel costs could have been the last straw in making the contract unviable (having been priced too sharply to survive that headwind). They would not have been the first businesses to misjudge things in situations when a contract is mainly awarded on lowest price. 

IF he had withdrawn from the contract in a more orderly way - by giving some reasonable notice, and kept performing in the meantime - Nexus would not have had to award a short term temporary contract to keep the service going. 

If the operation had moved straight to a normal 1 year contract, drivers specifcally working on 700/1 would have been in scope of TUPE. GNE would have been required to take them on with conditions no worse than they had with City, and if they subsequently had been made redundant, the years of service with City would have counted in the payment that GNE would have to make. However, pay for the work they did for City would have remained City's responsibility. (For completeness, I suspect there are rules about how holiday pay works too.)

Under the short term contract arrangment, GNE has no responsibility under TUPE, and the drivers are presumably redundant from City (unless offered suitable other work - see details at https://www.gov.uk/redundancy-your-right...ndancy-pay. ). 

If the drivers have sufficient service with City to have entitlement to statutory redundancy payment, City will be responsible - so it might end up costing them more than it would have done if they had maintained the service during a notice period.

All in all, City seem to have been a right mess. And fuel prices might have just been only part of the problem. All bad luck for the drivers affected, hope it has worked out ok for them.