Unreasonable working travel request 18hours

sammyjammy

AskAsk said:

elsien said:

AskAsk said:

where i work, people often travel this far at least once a week.  they don't get hotel stay but they can claim travel expense and they often use the train as it is faster.  you will probably find that if you got the train, it wouldn't take you 6 hours.

i think they should pay you travel expense but if it is not a regular occurence and just a one off then i don't think it is a huge problem.

i myself have had to travel 5 hours or more to meetings at short notice and i only get travel expense re-imbursed.

Even as a one off, a 6 hour day with 12 hours of driving just isn’t safe. I’m guessing your meetings don’t last for 6 hours?

In the OPs position I’d be comparing the cost/length of a train journey at short notice plus time back to the cost of a hotel and then seeing how their budget stacks up. 

the one i was thinking of was about 4 - 5 hours.  the OP doesn't have to drive as he could get the train then a taxi from the nearest train station and get re-imbursement for travel.

the only time i got hotel stay was when the meetings extended over more than one day.

Just because you did it it doesn't make it acceptable, its exactly the kind of thing that gets employers prosecuted when the employee ends up dead on the motorway because they fell asleep behind the wheel.