A belated snow and pay question.

clairec79

Did you send him home as the snow was getting bad or did he ask to go?

If you sent him then your choice, you pay
His request, his choice, he pays (well you don't pay)

Total_Chunk

I am on minimum wage and parked my car at the bottom of the hill that I live on and walked down to it so I could get to work. I never considered not trying although a few days were hellish to even get to the car. I went A over T a few times!

I can understand people being nervous driving in the snow but going home five hours early sounds like skiving to me! I would expect to lose a day of holiday in this situation.

Fluffi

My company would make you take it as annual leave (or unpaid leave if they have no leave left). Given it was 5 hours then that would either be a whole day's leave or half a day and the remaining hour and it bit made up within the same week.

Paying someone for 5 hours becuase they were worried about not getting home seems very generous to me!

MrsTinks

My current job doesn't really apply to this as I can work from home so no free snow days for me But where I worked before with a staff of about 20 working directly for me the snow policy was that if you didn't make it in you didn't get paid. It wasn't the company's fault it snowed and if one person could make it in then as far as I was concerned everyone could. On the other hand I had no problem with staff being late or dashing off to pick off other staff from bus stops or even if they lived nearby. Never docked them for that
But if at 6:30 as first person on site I could get nearly 20 miles in a 1978 mini... and I know at the time I lived the furthest away with the most "non main roads" then anyone not making it in frankly weren't making an effort. On the other hand... I did know where all my staff lived as we were a pretty close team

All that said - I know some people are scared of driving in the snow or have to make certain they are back to pick up kids etc and I always worked round that - but if they weren't in the office they didn't get paid - end off. Whether they prefered to make up the hours or not get paid etc was something that was discussed and decided on an individual basis

My younger sister is a care nurse in Denmark... and she doesn't drive - given that they have had a lot more snow this year than we have she hasn't even been late for a shift yet... the mad girl STILL cycles several km in the snow... now THAT is mad! :eek:

custardy

borders_dude wrote: »

People who dont turn up to work or leave early because of snow shouldnt be paid full stop.

Its not the employers fault the worker cant get in, therefore shouldnt be paying the worker.

Its not the workers fault but it is their responsibility to get into work, if they dont they shouldnt be paid.

This should particularly apply to those being paid out of the public purse!

what about getting home? tough?

elfen

Used to walk home from work in the snow, usually up and down three miles of hills ranging from not too bad tro steep as f**k. I've seen cars that have skidded off and been left there.

nearlyrich

How about my situation where the customers I was due to see hadn't made it in and told me not to bother driving 50 miles for no reason, not my fault they were not available..should I get paid? Or Not?

jdturk

nearlyrich wrote: »

How about my situation where the customers I was due to see hadn't made it in and told me not to bother driving 50 miles for no reason, not my fault they were not available..should I get paid? Or Not?

if you made it into work then definately, its like going to work in retail and no customers

LittleVoice

nearlyrich wrote: »

How about my situation where the customers I was due to see hadn't made it in and told me not to bother driving 50 miles for no reason, not my fault they were not available..should I get paid? Or Not?

Are you an employee or self-employed?

dlk

Well I work for a very large UK company and if you can't make it in, or want to leave due to weather conditions they will certainly allow that but you are expected to work back the hours or use holiday time.