Do I pay for travel time?

PasturesNew

Govt says: https://www.gov.uk/minimum-wage-different-types-work/overview

theoretica

Savvy_Sue wrote: »

I don't think you can pay an hourly minimum rate below NMW, even if it's for travel time. What you'd therefore need to do would be to lower their hourly rate, but pay it for more hours.

My reading of the legislation is that you can - the minimum wage only applies to the average over the wage period, which is why if you are on a higher wage unpaid overtime is legal, but not on a minimum one.

Assuming that you are currently paying over the minimum wage when taking travel into account this reads to me like a psychology problem. Would your employees rather be paid £9 and hour for 3 hours and then do 1 hour unpaid travel or £6.75 an hour for 4 hours? Would paying for travel motivate them to feel appreciated and work harder, or would they make less effort to get between jobs fast? Perhaps working towards a scheme where they are paid the minimum wage for travelling, but the higher wage for their skilled cleaning work would be fair and appreciated all round.