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Overtime Pay Question

  • 15-06-2018 11:32AM
    #1
    angela1711
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 475 ✭✭


    Hi,

    Does anyone know if your employer is legally obliged to pay you for the hours it took you to travel to and from a training course ? I normally work 9-6 with an hour lunch. I had to leave at 6.30am to get to Dublin and did not get home until 7.30pm or so. I work for a big brand and they have loads of different training courses for employees. In general each time I am send on to one of these courses I spend up 4 extra hours at work.


    Also, my colleague got paid for this once before and I didn't even though we were travelling together.


Comments

  • #2
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,250 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    What does your contract say?


  • #3
    angela1711
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 475 ✭✭angela1711


    I've no contract... and my colleagues say that he is only obliged to work 40hours a week.


  • #4
    angela1711
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 475 ✭✭angela1711


    His contract I mean


  • #5
    randomrb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 351 ✭✭randomrb


    You are legally obliged to have a contract of employment no matter what your status is once you are working with them for longer than 2 months


  • #6
    skallywag
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,075 ✭✭✭skallywag


    I'm not quite sure of the exact legal situation, but in my own experience travel time to the likes of a training course outside of normal working hours (assuming one is salaried) is not normally compensated.


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  • #7
    angela1711
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 475 ✭✭angela1711


    I know that I've a law degree myself. The issue here isn't the contract but the overtimes.


  • #8
    skallywag
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,075 ✭✭✭skallywag


    How is overtime handled in general? It's quite normal not to be compensated directly for every single hour of OT worked, when one is salaried.


  • #9
    angela1711
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 475 ✭✭angela1711


    If you will be asked to stay in the office past 6pm you will be paid for that.


  • #10
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭✭ [Deleted User]


    angela1711 wrote: »
    I know that I've a law degree myself. The issue here isn't the contract but the overtimes.

    The issue is the contract. Your contractual agreement should outline what happens if you're required to work overtime. Practice and custom around overtime in other companies will have no impact on your contract. Get a copy of your contract.


  • #11
    Claw Hammer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,967 ✭✭✭Claw Hammer


    randomrb wrote: »
    You are legally obliged to have a contract of employment no matter what your status is once you are working with them for longer than 2 months

    The O/P already has a contract of employment. What an employee is entitled to is a written statement of the terms of the employment after 2 months.


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