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Travelling during working day

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Dutchhouse14 · 06/08/2025 13:01

I usually work from home but we have a small office (that isn't big enough to house, all employees) that is my official working location.
Once a week I travel to another site( not my official working location) in the middle of my working day. Ie start work at home, go to this other location to compete a task that can only be done there, then drive back home and continue working.
Manager has just picked up on me using working time to travel to and from this location. She has asked me to log as finishing work on my spreadsheet when I leave home, then log time of arrival time at other location as restarting work then do the same back again.
I challenged this as
A) it's in middle of my working day and it's not a location I can work all day from
And
B) it's not my official working location so not a normal commute

HR policy is wooly and she's going to check with them but AIBU to challenge her on it?

OP posts:
FrippEnos · 06/08/2025 14:47

Are you insured to travel to this site?

Comefromaway · 06/08/2025 14:43

It should be paid as working time and if you were to be on NMW could take you under that. It also counts as hours under the Working Time Directive.

Travel to and from your normal place of work does not count, neither does travel to your first client/place of work if you are peripatetic (at least for the moment according to the appeal court). In our company you would be paid a mileage allowance as well as your time.

DancingLions · 06/08/2025 14:41

I had a role where I would sometimes have to visit other places at random times. Travel time was always counted as work time, I would have strongly challenged it if it wasn't.

That said, how much time are we talking? How does it compare to your normal commute?

KrisAkabusi · 06/08/2025 14:39

How far away is the other site? We are not allowed to claim for time under 30 minutes away as that is considered to be the same as normal commute time.

TheSandgroper · 06/08/2025 14:36

In Australia, I would log in to the tax office and put the question into their chat box.

In Australia, your employer would be earning bad ju-ju.

Meadowfinch · 06/08/2025 13:08

TreeDudette · 06/08/2025 13:03

You are not being unreasonable. You are travelling to a site that is not your work location to do a work task because work want you to - this is clearly work. I wfh and when I travel down to the office my travel time is considered work.

This.

Either your office is your base, and they are asking you to travel to a different site, or you wfh and they are asking you to travel to another site.

Unless your contract specifically says that Monday you are based at site A and Tuesday you are based at site B, your time and mileage are work costs.

Mrsttcno1 · 06/08/2025 13:07

I think it will end up coming down to what the time difference is between your normal place of work & this office.

If commuting to your usual office takes say 10 mins, and commuting to this other place takes 30 mins, then you should get 20 mins of it as working time. 30 - the 10 you would spend on your typical office commute. If they both take say 30 mins to get to though then I’d be surprised if this is working time.

Hankunamatata · 06/08/2025 13:05

Is there no option to work from the other site?
How long is the travel?
What's in your job description?

TreeDudette · 06/08/2025 13:03

You are not being unreasonable. You are travelling to a site that is not your work location to do a work task because work want you to - this is clearly work. I wfh and when I travel down to the office my travel time is considered work.

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