can work make you work away

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Hi, my dh has had a job for a year that involves going away on some 'overnight travel' according to his contract. He started going away one week out of two but now his work is pushing him to be away constantly. Only coming back on weekends. I am against this and he does not want to. Can they make him....

They are pushing it - are they paying all his expenses ad proper overnight allowance? My old firm tried this and I left. I accept that is not easy in the current environment.

Could DH negotiate better scheduling of the jobs? Sometimes, firms just do not think and sometimes they do it deliberately to force people to resign by piling unreasonable pressure on.

What does his contract say?

My DH's contract says he is UK mobile which means they can send him to work wherever whenever.

In practice he never worked away for the first 7 years he worked for the company, but has had to more recently .

I'm just glad he's got a job at all at the moment.

There's probably not a lot he can do about it, unless he has some constructive alternative suggestions. Every week isn't 'some overnight travel', but on the other hand if that's where the work is I'm just thinking is there anything else he could suggest?

If they are piling all the travel on him and it could and should be shared, he could raise that as a possibility?

He is paid well for being away. Other people in his company in same role barely go away due to having young children and babies. Our daughter has special needs and it can be tiring when he is away. He is happy to do his fair share but feels he has equal reasons for not going away all the time, as some of his colleagues.

I know we should be thrilled he has a stable job and I don;t mean to whinge but I just feel being away constantly is too much. In addition he is expected to leave at 2pm on a Sunday and get back at about 10pm on a Friday every week, meaning he is only home one day per week