Overtime

[Tucsonuk]

I am full time saleried employee and get paid overtime for work done out of hours, if the company ask me to travel to another site 3 hours away on a weekend to do an hours work, should they pay me overtime for the time i spend traveling or just teh time spent at the site doing the work.

[judgemental24]

Re: Overtime

Do you use a company vehicle and do you normally have a fixed base of work

All overtime is voluntary unless an express term in your contract of employment

[nemesis45]

Re: Overtime

I am full time saleried employee and get paid overtime for work done out of hours, if the company ask me to travel to another site 3 hours away on a weekend to do an hours work, should they pay me overtime for the time i spend traveling or just teh time spent at the site doing the work.

Hi Welcome to LB I don't think having a company car is relevant unless you are expected to pay fuel cost yourself out of normal working hours.
The time expended to do the 1 hours work i.e. getting to site and travelling back I think should be paid as overtime.

nem

[stevemLS]

Re: Overtime

It doesn't really matter what anyone here thinks, I imagine your employer will only pay for your travelling time if your contract defines overtime as including travel time.

[judgemental24]

Re: Overtime

Quite a few companies allow employees to take their work vehicle home on the condition they actually report to their designated first job that day at their official star time. (a perk) That can mean travelling up to a hour etc to that first job in your own time.

This is covered under the Working time regulations.

Currently the UK government guidelines are that time spent travelling at work does count towards the 48 hour maximum working week, but travelling to and from work does not.

A CJEU judgement on the 10 september 2015, (10 days ago) changes everything. Spanish burglar alarm installers

Mobile workers are entitled to include the time spent travelling each day to and from their first and last customers of the day within the European Working Time Directive, which is an average of 48 hours a week, unless they choose to opt out.

The ruling means thousands of employers could be in breach of the working time regulation rules.

[Tucsonuk]

Re: Overtime

Thanks for the info, I get the use of a company pool car and normally work out of a fixed office, but am traveling to other offices on a regular basis and have to travel out of hours back from these lcoations, in order to get back to work the next day. (eg last week i had to drive home for 3 1/2 hours on Friday night to get back home (arrived home at 0015 hrs) and then had to go to another two offices on the Saturday morning starting at 0800 hrs (another 4 hours of travel)