Who should get compensation for delayed trains paid for by work?

ab1982

Whoever bought the ticket should get the refund and you should claim OT from the company if youre impacted.

magyar

ab1982 wrote: »

Whoever bought the ticket should get the refund and you should claim OT from the company if youre impacted.

That wouldn't work if you're a salaried employee with no overtime.

Johno100

magyar wrote: »

That wouldn't work if you're a salaried employee with no overtime.

Unless you are on flexi-time of course.

magyar

Johno100 wrote: »

Unless you are on flexi-time of course.

I think there the issue is whether or not that company normally pays travel time and/or expects you to travel exclusively in work time.

Clearly if you're being paid for travel time, then the company should get any refunds etc. since, presumably, the salary would be more than the compensation anyway.

ab1982

Of course if you can't claim OT or flexi then you can't claim it.... refund is still the companies.

alisont

Interesting this - occasionally I have to travel to another work site for meetings - I pay the train fare, get a valid receipt and then put a pay claim in to work and eventually it gets paid. I think if there were major delays I'd put in a claim to the train company as I'd paid for the ticket and get the refund but not then make a claim for work expenses.
However we don't get paid travel time paid on the way home so if there was a major delay not quite sure what I'd do, work might well say claim for the ticket from them and then claim for compensation for the train ticket and lost, unpaid time too.

wealdroam

alisont wrote: »

...work might well say claim for the ticket from them and then claim for compensation for the train ticket and lost, unpaid time too.

Even if 'work' say that, you will not get compensation for the lost time from the train company.

magyar

ab1982 wrote: »

Of course if you can't claim OT or flexi then you can't claim it.... refund is still the companies.

Why, exactly? They paid to get someone to/from a particular place for work. That happened. They got what they paid for.

The worker is being compensated for a delay, for which they are getting no additional pay from the company. Why shouldn't they benefit from any refund?

If - for example - the trip was cancelled and the worker went to work as normal then clearly the refund should go to the company.

In practice, as has been said above, many large companies wouldn't know what to do with a cash refund. If it happened to me then we'd just end up putting it behind the bar at the Christmas party or something.

magyar

alisont wrote: »

Interesting this - occasionally I have to travel to another work site for meetings - I pay the train fare, get a valid receipt and then put a pay claim in to work and eventually it gets paid. I think if there were major delays I'd put in a claim to the train company as I'd paid for the ticket and get the refund but not then make a claim for work expenses.

However we don't get paid travel time paid on the way home so if there was a major delay not quite sure what I'd do, work might well say claim for the ticket from them and then claim for compensation for the train ticket and lost, unpaid time too.

wealdroam wrote: »

Even if 'work' say that, you will not get compensation for the lost time from the train company.

I think unfortunately this is part of the rather unfair 'contract' many of us (me included) have. I was recently at a meeting in London which itself went on until 6.30pm, then because of train delays I ended up getting home around 9pm. I don't get any compensation for this from anyone (the delay was due to a fatality on the line).

Not much you can do about this really.

ab1982

Because the refund is for a ticket the company bought.