13th June 2013, 07:20 PM
Crocodile Wrote:if an employee was to receive less than minimum over the pay period for that loss of 5 or 10 minutes each time they booted up then the employer will have broken the law. .... you'd probably have a strong case if you wished to contest the issue.Employers like that care about such things only when instructed to do so by an industrial tribunal. This route is either not financially available (due to lack of Legal Aid) or desirable (due to blot on CV/future job references) for that kind of low-paid un-unionised workforce.
Work time counts as any time that you are required to be at work, other than when you are on a rest break, including travelling during the working day, though not to and from work.