26th September 2008, 11:42 AM
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This scenario is exactly why so many employers started offering accomodation near to the site! and may have fallen foul of the Revnue.....
Some offer TOIL, some offer overtime, or a shorter day on site (some only to the driver for all of these) and some don't offer any at all. And the overtime can be plain time.
The details are often in the contract (e.g. if travel time to site is less than half an hour you don't get compensation) and once again often take account of the Revenue's rules on pay/expenses. Of course, the fact that many people don't get given a copy of their contract/terms and conditions/staff handbook is often an issue.
It's the sort of thing I ask when I'm offered a job. (I would point out, however, that very many people regularly travel over an hour each way, unpaid, to their place of work!)
I have to say, despite reading as much as I could of the thread on taxed accommodation, that I don't quite understand that particular situation.... anyway, my point was really to do with the way in which a job might be advertised, rather than the actual fact when you arrived. Asking at an early stage is obviously a good idea, but if it was advertised as X hours per week why would you necessarily feel the need to ask if that was true? It would hardly please a potential employer!
As for the amount of time spent travelling to a fixed place of work - that is really your own look out, although in the harsh realities of short-term contracts it's not quite that easy.