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When do you start work?
copier_guy
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Daft question but it's one i don't no the answer to.
i am a mobile field engineer, expected to travel to any customer site, within reason, and be there for 09:00 to start work.
I have daily deliveries to a secure location a few miles from home (called ByBoxes) for which i pick up parts & stuff then go to work.
I am at my ByBox for 08:00 every day to pick up deliveries and to get to my customers by 09:00
What time do i start work?
i am a mobile field engineer, expected to travel to any customer site, within reason, and be there for 09:00 to start work.
I have daily deliveries to a secure location a few miles from home (called ByBoxes) for which i pick up parts & stuff then go to work.
I am at my ByBox for 08:00 every day to pick up deliveries and to get to my customers by 09:00
What time do i start work?
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08:00 I would suggest as picking up items is part of your job0
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I'd say 8.00am as well - if you are expected to pick up parts, then you are clearly working.0
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I would actually say it is from the time you leave home. You aren't travelling to a fixed place of work so under HMRC rules you'd be entitled to claim business mileage from your front door so in their eyes at least you are working.0
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sadly its a fully expensed company car
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I would actually say it is from the time you leave home. You aren't travelling to a fixed place of work so under HMRC rules you'd be entitled to claim business mileage from your front door so in their eyes at least you are working.
I would agree as you'r e a mobile engineer its from the time you leave home until the time you get home. It's not your fault if it takes 10 mins to get to your first customer on one day and 1.5 hours the next day so your working day is the time you are on the road in total. This includes travelling to your box and your customers.You're not your * could have not of * Debt not dept *0 -
If your first task of the working day is something at ByBoxes, then that's probably your fixed place of work and that is when your working day starts. Of course this only has a legal effect if you therefore earn less than minimum wage or more than the working time directive. Otherwise if you bring it up all that's likely to happen is hours go up, pay per hour goes down."Every single person has at least one secret that would break your heart. If we could just remember this, I think there would be a lot more compassion and tolerance in the world."— Frank Warren0
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Does your contract of employment say what is your base? Your home?0
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You have similar issues to my situation only that my company have decided to not pay 45mins of my travel at both ends of the day.
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copier_guy wrote: »sadly its a fully expensed company car
Why sadly? Presumably you have been given this as a tool for the job, ergo as soon as you get into it you are at work...If you haven't got it - please don't flaunt it. TIA.0
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