work expects me to work through unpaid dinner hour

moneysavingexpert79

Rockporkchop wrote: »

For goodness sake, it's only an hour and presumably a one off so stop being such a moaning jobsworth.

If it's a one off then they won't mind paying her for it then will they?!

If I were you I'd go sick. Either that or tell them you're a vegetarian and have a wheat allergy. Then you could faint on the bus because of nothing to eat and bump your head, causing major stress.

This sounds like what an old employer would do to me. Show them a bit of enthusiasm (an inch) and they'll take you for whatever you can get (a mile).

Simply REFUSE to step on the bus without having their word that you will get paid for this hour. You are completely in the right by feeling aggreived.

pinkkiss

onlyforboards wrote: »

Lots of issues here. Did they give you an option on what you eat? Not everyone can eat sandwiches and crisps and would need a place to store their own food.

no they actually said that they cant cater for special dietry requirements
so anyone with those will have to bring their own lunch anyway !

pinkkiss

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

But surely you are travelling in their time if a coach is picking you up from your normal place of work, half an hour after you start?

sorry i dont think i was clear on what i meant on that bit.
i meant that they're classing the 45 mins we're travelling back on the coach as our dinner hour

Oldernotwiser

pinkkiss wrote: »

sorry i dont think i was clear on what i meant on that bit.
i meant that they're classing the 45 mins we're travelling back on the coach as our dinner hour

On that basis you're travelling one way in their time and one way in yours- sounds a reasonable compromise to me. I can't really see that you can consider yourself to be working when sitting on a coach!

jamespir

you getting paid to sit on a coach for an hour and a half so you cant really complain

DVardysShadow

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

On that basis you're travelling one way in their time and one way in yours- sounds a reasonable compromise to me. I can't really see that you can consider yourself to be working when sitting on a coach!

It sounds like an unreasonable imposition to me. If you are on a coach going to or coming back from hearing bigwigs you don't really want to see, then you are certainly not on your own time.

Oldernotwiser

DVardysShadow wrote: »

It sounds like an unreasonable imposition to me. If you are on a coach going to or coming back from hearing bigwigs you don't really want to see, then you are certainly not on your own time.

That doesn't make sense!

moneysavingexpert79

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

On that basis you're travelling one way in their time and one way in yours- sounds a reasonable compromise to me. I can't really see that you can consider yourself to be working when sitting on a coach!

Oh yes she can! How else can you think any different? If I were to travel on a bus for an hour for the sake of my employer, then I'd want to get paid for it. She hasn't asked to sit on a bus.

Eg: If you were to go to a training day which required 3 hours of travel in the morning until 11am, training until 5pm, and the normal working day was 8-5, would you expect not to get paid for the return journey 5-8pm? Your employer did after all pay for you sitting on a bus 8-11am after all!
What nonsense!:rotfl:

DVardysShadow

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

That doesn't make sense!

Put another way, you are on company time.

moneysavingexpert79

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

That doesn't make sense!

Yes it does, it makes perfect sense. He maybe could have said "you're not IN your own time." Does that make it any clearer?

Are you trying to be a pillock? Why would anyone do anything that an employer requests if they are not getting paid to do it? Whether it be sitting on a bus or doing arduous labour?