Claiming overtime....for travel?

[tegwin]

If you work day in day out at one location in an office for X hours a week....

You have to go on a training course 300 miles away.... The company will pay your fuel (not enough to cover actual costs!)

They have agreed to pay for one nights budget hotel....


What is "normal" time compensation? I am going to be driving a total time of around 7 hours, which is more than my daily commute of 1.8 hours... Do I charge that extra "travel" time as overtime? Is that acceptable?

As far as I see it, I could be at home finishing off the plastering....... so feel I should be time compensated.... what do other people do in this situation?

[Eric Mc]

Will you be exceeding your normal working hours?

What mileage rate are they paying you?

I would say, forget it. They are willing to send you on a course to better yourself. I presume they are paying the course fee.

In the current economic climate I would just keep my head down and get on with it.

[dmitsi]

If I have to travel abroad and leave on a weekeday, I get paid from the second I leave the front door until I end my first day at work. If it's a weekend flight I don't get paid until I start my first working day. I'm sure that doesn't help you, but now you know.

[Nimbus]

surely you'll just travel in 'works' time, and therefore not need to book any overtime.

[esselte]

tegwin said:

As far as I see it, I could be at home finishing off the plastering....... so feel I should be time compensated.... what do other people do in this situation?

Is the course optional?If so and you're that bothered about the platering then don't do the (free,to you, I assume) course...Or maybe you think the course could be an asset to any future cv you may need to write...?

[SoapyShowerBoy]

Look at your day as a 9 hour window, anymoe then 9 hours and book the O/T. There is no point doing things for sts and giggles.

[esselte]

SoapyShowerBoy said:

Look at your day as a 9 hour window, anymoe then 9 hours and book the O/T. There is no point doing things for sts and giggles.

What if the course could be an asset to you...?

[SoapyShowerBoy]

esselte said:

SoapyShowerBoy said:

Look at your day as a 9 hour window, anymoe then 9 hours and book the O/T. There is no point doing things for sts and giggles.

What if the course could be an asset to you...?

The course at this moment is an asset to the company as well as the individual. Peoples time costs money, I say book it.

[Eric Mc]

Mutually beneficail to both I would say.

Why book overtime if everything is done within normal hours.

[esselte]

SoapyShowerBoy said:

esselte said:

SoapyShowerBoy said:

Look at your day as a 9 hour window, anymoe then 9 hours and book the O/T. There is no point doing things for sts and giggles.

What if the course could be an asset to you...?

The course at this moment is an asset to the company as well as the individual. Peoples time costs money, I say book it.

A mutual asset that the company is wholly paying for.....

[tegwin]

Course benefits the company.... means bugger all on a CV really given that its stupidly specialised in a single product....

I would be travling outside my "work window".....

I have also been informed that I have a meeting tonight in the hotel with the other guy from work to discuss the training..... Now that IS overtime... lol..

[Eric Mc]

That's what I like to see. the workforce pullling together with management in times of adversity.

[edc]

Eric Mc said:

That's what I like to see. the workforce pullling together with management in times of adversity.

If there is overtim written into the contract then I can only suppose that it should be paid at the going rate.

The other day I left at 4am and arrived back home at 10.30pm having travelled to announce some redundancies. I bet those affected people and my managers would love it if I submitted a claim for overtime.

[Puggit]

For me it's give and take. Tomorrow I fly from London to Newcastle for a day's work, like edc leaving and getting home at silly o'clock.

Today I'm working from home, and Friday afternoon's tend to be relaxed...