Part time being paid less than full time to attend work function

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Is this right, I have been asked along with other representives from my department to attend the company awards overseas. So we won't strictly be working but the full time members of staff have been allocated three full days for this but I have only got three half days pay for doing the same.

Not sure what to say or do as it is a privilege etc to be asked to go but I am losing out especially ad will be a long day with travel etc.

Any thoughts/ advice?

what differentnameforthis says.

If the company want you to attend a work-based event where you are expected to attend/contribute towards conferences/presentations/meetings etc then that is WORK. You should be paid normal hours PLUS travel PLUS overtime

If the company offer some (or all) of their staff an 'off-site' event - with entertainment thrown in, some sport stuff, and lots of good meals and chance to enjoy spa hotel (or whatever) with colleagues instead of working, and it is entirely optional whether you go or not, that is not WORK**. You don't get 'docked' pay for being there but you don't get extra for going.

In the latter case it's entirely your choice whether to go or not, and it would go down like a lead balloon with your bosses if you asked to be paid more for it. Just like it would go down like a lead balloon with you if they only invited the full time staff because it was a full time event.

Whether you go or not is your choice. I never bothered once I had kids but that's probably more to do with having attended so many of these events before that they felt more like hard networking than fun and I was getting too long in the tooth to stay up half the night slamming tequilas, no matter how fab the venue.

** You will almost certainly find that one of the mornings is taken up by a formal work event of some kind. That is usually done in order to justify to the Inland Revenue that the whole event is business-based and as such is tax-deductible. That doesn't change anything I said above.

Depends on the 'norm' for your work though StillSquiffy.
My dh has to go away to conferences and other work meetings 2 or 3 times a year. Usually they go over weekends. Obviously the go outside "working hours" in that he isn't able to come home for his tea / the evening / overnight / breakfast, but no-one in his line of work gets paid for it, it's part of the job. You either fly off to the country concerned and attend the conference, or you don't, there's not really a part time option about it. You could tell your boss you weren't going, and that's fine, but a lot of important networking and meetings go on at these things, and if you choose to opt out, then you can't be surprised if someone who is a bit keener gets selected ahead of you for the next job.

You are not being paid less than the full timers for attending this function, because from what you say, no one is being paid to attend. Employees are receiving their normal wage but have been given the option of attending this ceremony. In terms of working over and above your normal hours- well, everyone is, in that you're going away overnight and it will involve evenings too. Having said that, 'work' sounds a misnomer as it seems more of an event rather than actually working.

If you hadn't wanted to go, why didn't you just choose to work your normal office hours back home? This isn't a contractual aspect of your job; you have opted into it, and now late in the day seem to expect some sort of remuneration which would be unfair as no one is being paid for the trip.