10th February 2011, 12:37 PM
Basically if it's a company van/minibus/4x4 then it is a workplace, whether you're driving or snoozing/farting (or any combination of the above...) and you are thus at work and should be paid for it. Complications are your defined place of work. If it's a "home" job and the van takes you from the office, where you are "employed", this should apply. Your "travel" time is from home to office. If you are on a job-specific contract then your place of work is the site, and if a bus is provided to help you get there it could be construed as giving you a lift - as for example some big employers with factories/offices out of town (there used to be some in the UK) sometimes run a minibus service from the town centre.
Construction is not actually that unified and standardized. Almost everyone on a buidling site will be working for subcontractors: many will be on an "away" job basis, others wil be local.
Construction is not actually that unified and standardized. Almost everyone on a buidling site will be working for subcontractors: many will be on an "away" job basis, others wil be local.