work travel - own time?

bleepy

Call an employment advice line. I would say your not entitled to any allowance from your home to your normal place of work. If you are required to visit other offices then you should be paid expenses. How ever if you contract states you are required to report to abc then you could have an issue. As long as your contract states where your normal place of work is then your fine. Have you just tried putting in a expense form and see what happens?

getmore4less

Any wrote: »

Yes, but I have the feeling that this person is not that experienced in management, otherwise he wouldn't let them to wipe the floor with him this way.
And another problem is, that if he let them do this to him for some time it might be difficult to stand up to them now.
It might be easier to start a new job where you can build respect rather then make people who didn't respect you until this point suddenly see that they should.

You don't try to do it all at once that is a recipie for failure.

You don't demand the change you engineer it into your job.

You start with the obvious problems, double bookings need to stop, that would be a good start.

Start to be proactive but have clear goals of what it is you are trying to change.

eg: plan meetings Monday and Fridays at the local office to help free up the weekends. Overnights are then done midweek and you use the time in hotels to catch up with work rather than do mutliple long comutes.

Look for the regular meetings that could be done by phone, if there are weekily ones, start with one a month on the phone, build up to 3 and only do face to face once a month.

There are lots of things you can do to make life easier but it needs to be done over time to resolve them the way you want.

As I said before the key is to make sure the important things get done.

Any

getmore4less wrote: »

You don't try to do it all at once that is a recipie for failure.

You don't demand the change you engineer it into your job.

You start with the obvious problems, double bookings need to stop, that would be a good start.

Start to be proactive but have clear goals of what it is you are trying to change.

eg: plan meetings Monday and Fridays at the local office to help free up the weekends. Overnights are then done midweek and you use the time in hotels to catch up with work rather than do mutliple long comutes.

Look for the regular meetings that could be done by phone, if there are weekily ones, start with one a month on the phone, build up to 3 and only do face to face once a month.

There are lots of things you can do to make life easier but it needs to be done over time to resolve them the way you want.

As I said before the key is to make sure the important things get done.

Thanks, but I didn't mean that.
What I meant was the strenght of OP's husbands personality..

pinkshoes

halia wrote: »

Obviuosly I am in a minority which thinks that family should come before work and that your gravestone shouldn't read: "Worked 70 hr weeks, missed his sons birthday and died at 50 from stress related heart problems"

The above almost describes my father's life. As a child I rarely saw him, as he was out to work before I got up, and back late.

Just before his 50th birthday, he went to the doctor as he'd pulled a muscle in his left arm which wouldn't go away. 2 weeks later he had a quadruple heart bypass. Thankfully he lived, but he was told to choose between his job and his life. Obviously he chose his life.

But... long hours come with responsibility and a higher salary, and the higher salary pays for lifestyle. Perhaps I would rewind time and swap the dance classes, piano lessons, big house/garden etc... for more time with my dad, but I completely appreciate having had those things, which also made me the person I am today.

Your OH is just trying to provide for his family. Perhaps he (and together as a family) should consider a pay cut and go back to a lower level job and enjoy more family time. Not necessarily a good idea in a recession... Just make sure you know what you're giving up before making this decision.

ps - the cancelling of meetings and people not showing up - he needs to be more assertive, and if anyone doesn't turn up, then next time, phone them at 4am before he sets of driving to see if they can make it!! They'll soon learn to let him know in advance!

surreysaver

Men cannot win. They want to spend more time at home, but women do not want to go out and get the higher paid jobs to enable them to do so.

onlyforboards_2

I love how your posting here asking what your husband's rights are have got you labeled as a lazy moaning non-supportive wife who should be grateful her husband has a job at all.

In complete contrast to everything posted here when I have been employed by companies any time additional to my normal home to main office travel time was expensed and the time given back to me. No matter how high up in the company, no matter how high the salary or how much international travel taken, everyone had one base and all additional travel was accounted as such.

Your husband's situation depends on how his contract views this travel. Is he actually still formally working out of one office or has this changed?

funetik

As a man, we don't tend to like confrontation, especially when it could go horribly wrong. Considering the job market and your husband's financial obligations, it wouldn't be a wise move to do anything that could be seen as detrimental towards his company, regardless of rights or wrongs.

I'd agree that his company should pay his travel and his time, and they should organise things better than they currently are. That's not to say he should go in demanding things on his terms.

Without knowing his management, his company, what his job entails or his salary, it's hard to say what steps he should take.

Only he knows his situation and only he can act. You've told him how you feel about it and I'm sure he feels guilty breaking promises to his child. The ball's in his court.

catenorfolk

Two options really. One is for him to speak to his employers and explain the situation. Second, if he hates the job as much as you saythe maybe he should leave and get another job, which is not easy in this day and age and he probably wont get a particularly good wage. If he is getting a reasonable wage, dont work it out on an hourly rate because that can be depressing really, I think as you already know, it is a case of speak with management, deal with it or get another job. Or another option is to not get p****d off with it and give him all your support.