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What is the normal procedure if workplace is flooded?

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All these offices, shops and other workplaces which are underwater or seriously damaged by flood waters, are the employees forced to come to work? Do they get paid for it?
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I expect in most places employees are expected to turn up and help with the mopping up!0
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Depends, at my last work place, which was libel to flooding, we were sent hone and told not to return until we were contacted.
Happened twice in the seven years I was there (got stranded once and got paid 4 hrs overtime pay until they got permission to let us get out over the rail tracks) and after the last one, as a condition of the insurance they had to spend 100,000 on flood defences.
This was a manufacturing environment and we got full pay, they claimed off the insurance for lost productivity.0 -
ScarletMarble wrote: »All these offices, shops and other workplaces which are underwater or seriously damaged by flood waters, are the employees forced to come to work? Do they get paid for it?
I suppose if it is a normal working day as per their contract then yes, they must go in. What they do when they get there is a different matter. I wouldn't mind wading through water all day (assuming the electric's off) but I'd expect a pair of wellies to be provided.
Do they get paid? Of course!0 -
The fire service and environmental health team do not enter the water without dry suit protection and strict hygiene procedures.
It is not the sort of thing untrained shop workers should be paddling around in and mopping up.
Flood restoration is a specialised trade, all sorts of nasty's including weils disease are a risk.Be happy...;)0 -
If the employer is forced to close and sends the staff home or tells them not to turn up then they must still pay the staff.0
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It's a case of 'making yourself available'. If you contact your line manager and offer to attend, then you are fulfilling your side of the contract. If they then say not to cone in, you will still be liable for pay. Some companies have disaster recovery plans that may involve you say working from home, attending other premises owned by the company or attending temporary accommodation.Eat vegetables and fear no creditors, rather than eat duck and hide.0
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We flooded at work a few years ago (overrunning tap, not river).
We all turned up at work on the Monday after the Christmas break, to be sent home with instructions to stay off for the week. The following week they'd managed to sort out alternative accommodation for us in a basement office in a local hotel.
After 2 weeks out of the building, they'd got half of it safe and useable so we moved back in (onto the higher floors above where the tap had flooded). We were paid throughout.0
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