21st October 2015, 12:31 AM
(This post was last modified: 21st October 2015, 12:36 AM by Crocodile.)
If I work away my accommodation is paid for and it usually includes breakfast. I will also get a daily subsistance allowance. I will get a mileage allowance from my accommodation, to site and back, which is only fair as the distance and location of my accommodation to the site is the choice of my employer. I will also get mileage paid for the distance from the main office to the site and back. I get all this on top of my pay, and so I should, so why is it that these are taken as deductions from others?
If a company is providing low cost accommodation reasonably local to their main office, as a means of providing cheap accommodation for temporary workers, this is more acceptable. Even so, I do not think it should reduce wages below a minima, a minima which is an utter disgrace and insult in itself.
The deductions for travel really boils my piss though. If you as an employer choose the the distance between my normal place of work and my place of residence, why should I incur the costs. I would be quite happy for my employer to accommodate me within reasonable walking distance and charge me nothing.
If a company is providing low cost accommodation reasonably local to their main office, as a means of providing cheap accommodation for temporary workers, this is more acceptable. Even so, I do not think it should reduce wages below a minima, a minima which is an utter disgrace and insult in itself.
The deductions for travel really boils my piss though. If you as an employer choose the the distance between my normal place of work and my place of residence, why should I incur the costs. I would be quite happy for my employer to accommodate me within reasonable walking distance and charge me nothing.