Being made to work an extra 20 minutes unpaid a day

[GettingTiredNow]

I work in the admin base of the local NHS health authority, there are about 100 of us in our offices and nowhere near that number of car parking spaces. We double park which is ok but as more people have joined the organisation recently even that is not enough on some days. The powers that be have rented 10 additional spaces at the railway station down the road about a 10 minute walk away.

These 10 parking spaces have been allocated randomly to staff on a rota, each directorate is doing its own thing so you can end up with either a week there every 6 months or 3 months there as a one off. And I'm 1 of the lucky 10 who have been blessed with a pass

Us lucky 10 have been told that the time it takes us to travel back and forth to the car park needs to come out of our time and not the organisations. If we are late we need to email our boss with an expanation of how the time will be made back up.

I need to take my DC to school in the morning and the afternoon which fits within my working hours but a trip back and forth to the car park means I'm going to be early to school in the morning and late to pick up in the afternoon to ensure I'm at work for my contracted time.

AIBU to expect that as I am effectively helping the organisation out by walking down to the car park this shouldn't come out of my time?

I have to pay to park and it's a ten minute walk. I had to pay when it was right on site too but I constantly got blocked in at that place. Behold, life in the NHS.

Waiting for the five hour commute over mountains dodging bears with no shoes story to come up

I agree...i'd be desperately searching for another job if I was half the posters on this thread with such awful commutes and working hours!

This has to be a joke right? I'm a nurse that works 13.5 hour shifts, with no parking on site of nearby. The closest I can physically park without having to pay is 15 minutes away, it then takes me another 10 minutes from entering the building to getting to my place of work. I could pay £8 a day but choose not to. That's my choice. YADBU

Do you have a lunch break? Can you negotiate to work through your lunch break to make up any lost time?

I can't actually believe this is serious tbh.

Your job has provided you with free parking and you're moaning because you have to walk to and from said parking space and you aren't getting paid for it?

This is the epitome of entitlement

Usual NHS bashing I see.

OP I am sorry but you sound extremely entitled! Commute is your own time and tbh your employer paying for extra spaces is already good.

I work in a hospital and there is no free parking or even the space tbh which is why I moved 15min away from work so that I didnt need to commute over an hour in a bus each way. I wouldnt have expected my employer to fix the situation which is why I fixed it myself.

Yabvu :)

OP co can't pay, they is no available parking at the hospital paid or unpaid. Hospitals generally provide parking because of the nature of shift times.

I don't see any NHS bashing... just an acknowledgement that it's difficult, hospital sites have outlived the era for which they were built (when fewer people had cars) and that sometimes the organisation does try to look after its employees. although not always the ones at the coal face

"Waiting for the five hour commute over mountains dodging bears with no shoes story to come up"

Is that the best you can come up with Ivykaty.... I have to CARRY the bl**dy bear!!

I work in a large FE college in the city centre. To get a parking space you need to be in by 7.30 or they're all full. We start (paid) work at 8.30. Later than 7.30 you can try your luck in nearby residential areas, or pay through the nose for the shopping centre carpark.

What an absolute joke. Only it's not. Sorry OP, but be glad you have a job, and even better - one with free parking! (Ultimately paid for by the tax payer?)

This sounds just like a nitwit I manage. If the trains are delayed she thinks she doesn't have to make up time because it's "not her fault". It negatively impacts her though, I'm really flexible with my team but because of these ridiculous notions I go straight to policy every time with her.

Listsandbuckets what happens when the bear does a poo...?

Maybe hunter, like the OP, her life is so finely balanced. Hilarious.

A parking space! In an NHS job! You don't know you're born!

No op, having to stay on 15 minutes after your shift till there are no customers and not getting paid for it is unfair.
Having to clean your workplace for 15-20 minutes after your shift has ended to make it operational for next day and not being paid for it is not fair.
Having to stay behind to write notes up, make sure everything is organised and put away after you are being paid is unfair.
You are walking from a carpark and not being paid for it, that is not unfair.
Yab massively u.
If it bothers you so much ask them if you can park elsewhere?

I think you're getting a really hard time on here. I totally understand the difficulty of being unable to make the journey back for childcare. I'd echo the idea of asking if you can take a shorter lunch break (even if you never get a lunch break in practice, you could put in a flexible working request to finish earlier and have that shorter lunch). Your organisation should have a flexible working policy if it is a large NHS organisation.

You are paid from your start time to end time. Your commute, parking and child care arrangement are not your employers problem.

They are being very reasonable giving you a free parking space only 10 minutes away, and you are being very unreasonable in thinking you should be paid to walk to it.

I'm sure I saw a thread on her earlier that the NHS had given a worker a £2 payrise, the first pay rise in about 6 years. I think I will go and find it and tell her how lucky she is she's not getting a bashing like the OP on this thread

I sometimes have to travel with work. If I do my day starts at 6, two hours early, can finish at 8, three hours late, and I don't get time back in lieu or wages.

You've got an allocated space and have to walk? Sorry, limited sympathy.

Maybe you should change jobs? Seriously though. You work for the NHS. They will have procedures and policies in place to give u flexible working time. Count yourself luckier than those of us who work for very small businesses who barely pay maternity leave.

Terms and conditions have unilaterally changed though

You're not entitled to any parking at all though. It's a privilege, not a right so I don't think you'd get far with that.