Uniform changing periods allowed at work

gaznkaz08

Not sure if this is the correct forum but here goes

My contracted hours of work are 7:30 -19:30, we are told we must be at our area of work on the button and we must not clock out before 19:30, but the clocking in machines are on the shop floor and we need to change into overalls for work in upstairs rooms away from production. So we are actually on the premises for 10-15 mins before and after shifts. should we have some form of "changing time" included in our contracted hours.

this might sound like a bit of a petty matter, but it's being enforced very heavily at the minute. The exact wording from the MD is they will class it as theft and anyone clocking out early will be seen as stealing time off the firm.

i have been spoken to for clocking out at 29 minutes past the hour as the clocks aren't totally sync'd, even though they are all linked by computer and the machine next to me was saying half past

just seems we're being "tried" by the management and would be nice if we had a bit of comeback

System

i go to work in uniform but written into my contract is that i have to be there 10 mins prior to my start time. what does your contract state ?

Poolie

The point is are you getting paid for those extra 10 minutes or is your employer just expecting you do that for free. All those 10 minutes will add up quickly over a month.

gaznkaz08

Poolie wrote: »

The point is are you getting paid for those extra 10 minutes or is your employer just expecting you do that for free. All those 10 minutes will add up quickly over a month.

not getting paid for those extra mins, they are drumming it into us we are paid 7:30-7;30 we are getting changed in "our" time

afro_2

Are you required to get changed at work?

gaznkaz08

afro wrote: »

Are you required to get changed at work?

yes i work in pharmaceutical manufacturing, we have to go to the overall room pick them up, got to our locker room get changed go downstairs, clock in, then go to our lines for half past

freakyogre

I'd say in most jobs you would be expected to be there at least 10 minutes beforehand so you're ready for the day, whether that be to make sure you're dressed appropriately or to switch the computer on etc.

The way I look at it is if I had to phone/go somewhere at 9am (or whenever somewhere opens) I would be a bit p'd off if they were unable to help me for 10 minutes as the computers weren't on/staff weren't ready.

DCFC79

When i was at aldi we were asked to be 10 minutes early so we could get our selves ready for work and when we finished eg i would finish at 5 30pm and i would then go and get ready to go home, we wasnt payed for the extra time that we turned up at work or the time spent getting ready to go home

dacouch

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1134641_council_workers_paid_to_take_the_lift?rss=yes

gaznkaz08

freakyogre wrote: »

I'd say in most jobs you would be expected to be there at least 10 minutes beforehand so you're ready for the day, whether that be to make sure you're dressed appropriately or to switch the computer on etc.

The way I look at it is if I had to phone/go somewhere at 9am (or whenever somewhere opens) I would be a bit p'd off if they were unable to help me for 10 minutes as the computers weren't on/staff weren't ready.

thats what started all this off we had no probs in the past with getting on the shop floor 10-15 mins early, we would do a handover discuss any probs etc, then when the next shift came in we'd do the hand over and leave at around 25 past as they were all there ready to go.

Then they branded us as thieves for stealing time

tanith

I worked in uniform for 20yrs and we were always expected to be ready in uniform to start work at our shift start time so I don't really see why you expect to be paid more just because they expect you ready and prepared at your allotted shift start time... had it occured to you that the next shift might be complaining that you are expecting them in early so that you can leave early, maybe they just want to come in at the start of their shift and not before...