Do I have to go to work on my day off for covid testing

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Every week I have to go into work and get a covid test done, as well as do LFT twice a week as I work in healthcare. I have moved now and it is very much out of my way just to go in and get tested, at least a 35 to 40 minute journey, I already work 5 days a week. I don't get paid for doing it either. It's out of my way now since moving so I am just wondering before I approach my manager, am I in the wrong for not wanting to go in on my day off just for a 5 minute swab when I can just do it at home and send it off in the post that way? 

74jax

Deleted User said:

Every week I have to go into work and get a covid test done, as well as do LFT twice a week as I work in healthcare. I have moved now and it is very much out of my way just to go in and get tested, at least a 35 to 40 minute journey, I already work 5 days a week. I don't get paid for doing it either. It's out of my way now since moving so I am just wondering before I approach my manager, am I in the wrong for not wanting to go in on my day off just for a 5 minute swab when I can just do it at home and send it off in the post that way? 

You cant be in the 'wrong' for not wanting to do something.
If you don't want to do something then it's not really a right or wrong situation.  It's how you feel. 

kayleighali

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Every week I have to go into work and get a covid test done, as well as do LFT twice a week as I work in healthcare. I have moved now and it is very much out of my way just to go in and get tested, at least a 35 to 40 minute journey, I already work 5 days a week. I don't get paid for doing it either. It's out of my way now since moving so I am just wondering before I approach my manager, am I in the wrong for not wanting to go in on my day off just for a 5 minute swab when I can just do it at home and send it off in the post that way? 

You can only ask, however, I maybe wouldn't go in all guns blazing and saying how much of an inconvenience it is - you catch more flies with honey rather than vinegar after all

There may be a reason why you have to go in, for example, in my grandmother's care home, they complete the home testing but staff have to have a test every week which has been witnessed by managers to ensure it is done correctly. There could be something like this?

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kayleighali said:

Deleted User said:

Every week I have to go into work and get a covid test done, as well as do LFT twice a week as I work in healthcare. I have moved now and it is very much out of my way just to go in and get tested, at least a 35 to 40 minute journey, I already work 5 days a week. I don't get paid for doing it either. It's out of my way now since moving so I am just wondering before I approach my manager, am I in the wrong for not wanting to go in on my day off just for a 5 minute swab when I can just do it at home and send it off in the post that way? 

You can only ask, however, I maybe wouldn't go in all guns blazing and saying how much of an inconvenience it is - you catch more flies with honey rather than vinegar after all

There may be a reason why you have to go in, for example, in my grandmother's care home, they complete the home testing but staff have to have a test every week which has been witnessed by managers to ensure it is done correctly. There could be something like this?

Oh absolutely not lol thankfully I work with an amazing company and they're supportive. We don't need the managers to watch we just go in a room and get it done and have to put the registration sticker on the board with our names, but I can just give them the registration no when I do the test at home. I will speak to them but just wanted to know what was our rights, really. 

TELLIT01

To a large extent your 'rights' are determined by the rules of the company.  If they believe it is necessary for staff to do tests at work they can insist on that being done.  The have the right to ensure all staff are complying as well as a duty of care to staff.

oh_really

TELLIT01 said:

To a large extent your 'rights' are determined by the rules of the company.  If they believe it is necessary for staff to do tests at work they can insist on that being done.

Then the employer should arrange for this to be conducted during normal working hours.

unforeseen

You will probably find that for PCR tests they are only done one one particular day as they have to pre-arrange a courier to collect them. 

Potbellypig

TELLIT01 said:

To a large extent your 'rights' are determined by the rules of the company.  If they believe it is necessary for staff to do tests at work they can insist on that being done.  The have the right to ensure all staff are complying as well as a duty of care to staff.

I mean, let's be honest, all of what you've posted is complete nonsense. 

carebabe

If you are required to attend for test or indeed anything work related on a day off you are entitled to be either paid for your time or given time off in lieu.  

JamoLew

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Every week I have to go into work and get a covid test done, as well as do LFT twice a week as I work in healthcare. I have moved now and it is very much out of my way just to go in and get tested, at least a 35 to 40 minute journey, I already work 5 days a week. I don't get paid for doing it either. It's out of my way now since moving so I am just wondering before I approach my manager, am I in the wrong for not wanting to go in on my day off just for a 5 minute swab when I can just do it at home and send it off in the post that way? 

some pragmatism may be expected though as it was the OP that moved and made it more inconvenient