Question about attendance to an event

ohreally

SuperCat007 wrote: »

no overtime is agreed?.

If you have no contractual requirement to be available for overtime then politely decline the invitation to work ot.

Marcon

If you're a manager and your team is excited about going, maybe learn a lesson from them instead of whinging. The nature of management is that these things are expected of you; scrabbling around for scraps of legal backing to back up your disinclination to support your employer suggests you've reached the limits of your promotion prospects.

Casey1709

SuperCat007 wrote: »

Ok, you all seem to have the wrong end of the stick, so I seem to have not explained myself very well.

I don't want to go, but my personal feelings don't really matter as I need my team to attend and participate.

What I wanted advice on is the legality or any comments on whether a company can demand a whole team vacates their normal place of work to attend an event not at their normal site which finishes out of hours for which no transport is arranged and no overtime is agreed? (we have managed to finally get the company to pay for some transport but it was hard work and they were shocked we asked for it).

My concerns are with my team, not myself despite my feelings. As I have known from the start that unless ill, injured or on holiday I have to attend despite the fact that it will mean I will be home 4-5 hours later than normal on a Friday with no recompense.

Short answer is yes, your employer can as long as its reasonable in the circumstances.

You (& your team) can refuse, and then you have to deal with the consequences of dealing with the fall out.

If you feel its unreasonable, your team could take industrial action (is that really what you/ they want to do?) or resign and go to an Employment Tribunal who will rule whether it was a reasonable instruction.

There are normally ways to push back (legal and other) on such demands but that is irrelevant as that's not what you're asking. No one here knows your business sector or culture or rules or contracts.

Going to management and saying 'but someone on the internet said we don't have to do it' is likely to be a career limiting move.