Days in lieu

JulesNorm

I'm starting a new job in sales soon which will require a lot of travelling on business trips. I have a family and I don't wish to be outside of the UK often. I need to know employment law - how do you calculate days in lieu when you travel?

Can you please kindly advise me or give me some links? I wanted it to be done correctly from the beginning.

nearlyrich

What does it say in the contract? I don't think many companies will compensate for travel that's why they pay bigger salaries for jobs like this.

Undervalued

JulesNorm wrote: »

I'm starting a new job in sales soon which will require a lot of travelling on business trips. I have a family and I don't wish to be outside of the UK often. I need to know employment law - how do you calculate days in lieu when you travel?

Can you please kindly advise me or give me some links? I wanted it to be done correctly from the beginning.

There is no specific law on the subject providing the total number of hours worked doesn't drag your pay down to below the national minimum wage!

What you are describing are largely contractual and terms and conditions issues which will be specific to your job.

As a general point many higher level jobs actually require a large number of hours over and above the nominal "40 hour week" or whatever. Specifically how you will be directly or indirectly compensated for travelling, nights away etc etc is down to whatever agreement you can negotiate with your employer (or their laid down terms and conditions if there is less flexibility).

JulesNorm

Thank you.

cr1mson

Invididual companies will have their own rules. For instance if I was travelling beyond 7pm at night I could claim a disturbance allowance but no time off in lieu. If before 7pm I could claim time off in lieu less the amount of time I normally took to travel to work. However this was some years ago and different employers will deal with it in different ways.

gettingtheresometime

JulesNorm wrote: »

I'm starting a new job in sales soon which will require a lot of travelling on business trips. I have a family and I don't wish to be outside of the UK often. I need to know employment law - how do you calculate days in lieu when you travel?

Can you please kindly advise me or give me some links? I wanted it to be done correctly from the beginning.

This may seem an arguementative comment but surely thus is something you should have thought / asked about before accepting the job?

greenbee

I can take TOIL for weekend days - some companies say they should be taken as soon as possible, whereas my current employer is fine if you save them up (helpful for people with childcare needs during school holidays). However plenty of people don't take them, which isn't necessarily a good thing.

Evenings away/travelling are just seen as a fact of life, although it is noticeable that more of us are travelling during working hours so that we can get a sensible amount of rest rather than adding travel to both ends of the day. Thankfully increasing use of video conferencing is helping to reduce the amount of travel needed.