On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 06:47:55AM -0800, David F wrote:
On Nov 16, 12:29=A0pm, David Cantrell wrote:
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 01:11:04PM +0000, Roland Perry wrote:
Dunno, but I don't get paid extra, and have often had to spend Sundays
travelling to overseas meetings, which frequently clash with UK Bank
Holiday Mondays.
A reasonable employer would give you TOIL for both the time spent
travelling and the time spent working.
I've never seen this in the private sector.

It's been standard practice in every place I've worked that had more
than a handful of staff. Or at least, I've always just taken it
(having, naturally, informed people of when I would be away) and never
had any problems. Perhaps other more deferential and less assertive
staff didn't get it. That's their problem.

I do the same - often have
to travel on Sunday evenings so I can make a Monday morning meeting
either overseas, or in a difficult to get-to spot of the UK. I don't
get any extra pay, nor any extra time off.

TOIL isn't *extra* time off.

I suppose it depends on the job. None of mine have had the expectation
of having to do those sort of shenanigans regularly, and so when I *did*
have to do them, it would be reasonable to compensate me for them. If
it *is* a significant part of your job, then I suppose it could be
argued that you knew about it in advance and so don't need to be
compensated for it.

I'm thankful I have a job.

I'm thankful that I have a *good* job where the notional 9 to 5 is
sufficient to comfortably support the far more important 5 to 9.

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