Inclement / adverse weather protocol

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Curious, without wanting to start a TAAT, please can you share your employers "inclement / adverse weather protocol" with me?

Do you get to work from home, have to go in, forced to take annual leave etc.? Also what job do you do / or field if to outing?

I can work from home. Before that, we either had to take it as holiday, take it unpaid or make up the hours as soon as possible

Oh and I work in insurance

I manage a team in Further Education. I have advised them to come in if safe to do so. Leave if the situation deteriorates and they are worried about getting home. All paid.

Lecturers are provided with hotel accommodation if necessary and given financial compensation and subsistence allowance.

Anyone who cannot come in just works from home but that is easy for us to do. We can give students work to do from home/online.

As far as I am concerned it is Health & Safety first.

Staff in general were urged to make every reasonable effort to come in, but not at risk to their own safety or at utterly disproportionate journey time. After that, we trusted them to make a good call for their own circumstances. Paid as normal, and staff expected to make up hours (in the sense of staying longer to finish things that should have been done) over the coming days - as you can tell, we weren't very 'clock watcher' even in normal times.

We did have an OOH element, and there was an adverse weather business continuity plan, under which designated key staff needed to be in. If that meant they would need overnight accommodation, the organisation paid for that, plus a meal allowance, plus a small out-of-pocket expenses allowance (about £5, IIRC)

I work for a city firm in central London. Working from home would have been fine, and about 3 yesterday people were told to start making their way home if they needed to.

I don't know how many people couldn't make it to work anyway, either in the office or from home. I suspect they would be given the choice of annual leave or unpaid leave, but the firm is quite nice and so might just write the days off if there were enough people off.

When I ran a nursery it was about safety - admittedly we were rural. Staff got paid if they couldn't make it.

We worked out how many children we could have with available adults and prioritised police/medical type families as they 'had' to get to work - oh and the children of the man who drove the snowplough!
Parents paid if they couldn't make it - unless I'd asked for them to stay home so I could prioritise the care for another workers child

Most people got that a day working 'childfree' from home in a marketing or finance field was prioritised less than getting and keeping the roads as clear as possible or manning the local hospital
But some didn't

I work at a university so we can usually do a lot at home. No idea on official policy... but having said (Tues-Thurs) that the Uni was open & everyone was expected to be working (plus they were strike days), we got a 7:30am email yesterday DO NOT DRIVE and ALL LECTURES CANCELLED which was kind of funny... the EVERYTHING-OPEN days had much worse road conditions out my way.

I work for a digital agency in Central London and we could all work from home - everyone was paid as normal - admittedly it’s easy for us to do that and we have a flexi work policy most of the times

I work in a school. Working from home is not an option. Ultimately, it's down to the Head whether we open or not, although she will consult the Governor's and take into account what other local schools are doing. If the school is closed then we get paid. If the school is open but a member of staff was to ring up saying they can't get in then they would have to take the day unpaid.

We were told to get in when we could although as I live close I was expected to walk to work.
We are still paid even if we don't get there.
Rural area and buses and trains cancelled.

Out of town campus university, therefore if local schools close plus buses stop running, then we often end up closing. If work's open but you personally can't get in, options (depending on nature of role academic/admin/manual) are work from home, annual leave, unpaid leave or flexi. Policy is clear that it's the individual's choice where to live, including the risk of being unable to make it in in bad weather. However if the university calls an official closure then it's paid leave and nobody's expected to work (except for 'essential' staff, who get the time credited back).

We are expected to make reasonable efforts to come in, but if it's not possible for an individual to travel in safely or the decision is taken to close the office, we will be given paid leave.

DH works at an airport. He was expected to get in if at all possible. He was scheduled to work until very late evening on Thursday but when it became apparent he wouldn't get home if he left it too late, they let him go at 7. He still didn't get in until 11pm.

The missing hours will come out of his annual leave though.

I'm self employed and will have to refund my pupils. So we both lose out!

Basically get in or go to your nearest available office and work from there. However I live in an area that isn’t that badly affected so it hasn’t caused too much havoc.

Our official policy is that if we live within three miles we are expected to come in, but it is also fine to work from home if we have work that allows that. Operational staff were put up in nearby hotels to make sure we had cover.

If instructed not to come in for safety (for example during the recent red warning) and unable to do work at home, then we would have been paid.

In practice it's a lot more flexible.

Make every reasonable effort to get in, contact the boss if you cannot (and let others know where needed), work from home if you cannot, and join in meetings via conference calls.

Have to go in (police, although at not uniformed/front line). If roads not passable expected to walk to nearest station and report for work (a lot harder now as so many stations closed!). If not able to get in, phone and let them know, hale to take leave or have it unpaid. If supervisors think you can come in, they can order you to come in - disciplinary if you don't follow the order.

cold Ditto.

Focus on personal safety. Make best efforts to attend. Work from home if you have the equipment to do so. Take leave or time in lieu if not working.

Yesterday we did start sending people home early though because it started to look a bit blizzardy and that would be paid.

Did have someone in tears over the snow quite early in the day... Young and fit, concerned at the 20 minute walk home in inclement conditions. Seemed a bit wet, but must have been more to it so just sent them home.

I texted the onsite caretaker to say I wasn't in and he was in charge. He replied "okey dokey" and I'll make up the hours over the next couple of weeks.

Back in 2012/2013 (my last employer before my own business) we had so many people take the p on the first couple days of snow (nothing like this) that the company made it official "no pay no work". Thanks to the huge numbers (including one who lived so close we could see into his apartment window from our offices) who decided a little snow meant they had to stay home, when it really came down a few days later and with the weather now, the majority are not being paid. This is a group of companies, one of which is international, headquartered here.

A friend of mine works for a huge company that provide everything from call centres, pensions administration, government contracts etc. They are only paid snow days if they've been in and are sent home, or if their HQ decide that the satellite offices are closed. Tough luck if someone is genuinely stuck.

I walked there and back yesterday , fine going.
Coming back it was dreadful i was slipping and sliding all over he place on my estate it was like an ice rink.
I had walking boots on too so couldn't have done anything else.