Cycling UK Forum

I was signed off work. While I was away my bike was locked to one of the provided bike rails at work. Unbeknown to me they moved the rails to build a shed there. During that process they cut the lock. I have asked for reimbursement, but this has been ignored so far. I checked my emails to which I had access while I was off. There was no email about bikes needing to be moved from those rails nor anything about building work. So I did not ignore a request to move the bike. If a note was pinned on, they should have noted that employees currently not coming in also need to be notified in another way.

Should the employer reimburse the lock?