to employers in the electrical trade

[i=p/u]

if you had a job which required 2 hours travel to get there and 2 hours to get home ,would you pay your employees for that traveling?????

 

[alarm man]

if you had a job which required 2 hours travel to get there and 2 hours to get home ,would you pay your employees for that traveling?????

we'd get hotel and £40 drink/food allowance,2hrs travel not banking on delays to get to site for 8am that you up at 5.30am its along day.id go for the stop over,more fun too..:cool3:

 

[mogga]

Firm I work for and travel time policy equates to first and last hour is MY time (Unpaid) anything over is paid by requesting travel number against job ( checked against tracker) ie Aberdeen 3.5 hr travel there 3.5 back 4hrs work means I get 9hrs if I request 5.5 hrs id get that as stopping for loo ect even got time one day when I was stuck for an hour in traffic Didnt expect it but gaffer said that was tracker readout

CBW You say your guys get van/desil for private use I hope you also pay the TAX on it as thats why firm I work for got trackers after investigation by TAX Office they can now prove NO Private milage and as such I dont get taxed for it

 

[PC Electrics]

I used to have to travel to various places in my previous life, including Detroit (occasionally) and Roznov (regularly - staying at the Eroplan). The flights to Roznov left Stansted at about 6am, a 2 1/2 hr drive from home - I would arrive Roznov about 4pm local time. Although expenses were paid (flights, hotel, food, parking etc) I got nothing extra for my time.

cbw has an excellent attitude towards his associates. I would agree that 4 hours driving on top of an 8hr day is too much to expect of someone in charge of electrical safety on site. Both activities require ones full attention.
10hr days and 4 nights accomadation & food and some renumeration for being away is much more like it.

 

[alarm man]

Firm I work for and travel time policy equates to first and last hour is MY time (Unpaid) anything over is paid by requesting travel number against job ( checked against tracker) ie Aberdeen 3.5 hr travel there 3.5 back 4hrs work means I get 9hrs if I request 5.5 hrs id get that as stopping for loo ect even got time one day when I was stuck for an hour in traffic Didnt expect it but gaffer said that was tracker readout

CBW You say your guys get van/desil for private use I hope you also pay the TAX on it as thats why firm I work for got trackers after investigation by TAX Office they can now prove NO Private milage and as such I dont get taxed for it

we sign a form to say no private miles for van use,cant do it for cars,you get taxed the same for vans and cars for private use now,not worth it imo,someone might get a nasty tax bill if not done correctly..:whatchutalkingabout

 

[Deleted member 26818]

we sign a form to say no private miles for van use,cant do it for cars,you get taxed the same for vans and cars for private use now,not worth it imo,someone might get a nasty tax bill if not done correctly..:whatchutalkingabout

I think that with cars, if you can show that you have another vehicle which you use for private use, then HMRC can be forced into not taxing you for it.

 

[alarm man]

I think that with cars, if you can show that you have another vehicle which you use for private use, then HMRC can be forced into not taxing you for it.

not sure,at our place cant opt out with cars,only vans

 

[Deleted member 26818]

not sure,at our place cant opt out with cars,only vans

I think it depends how far your employer wants to push it.
For instance Police officers drive cars, I doubt that HMRC taxes them on their use.

 

[alarm man]

I think it depends how far your employer wants to push it.
For instance Police officers drive cars, I doubt that HMRC taxes them on their use.

aye,quite often seeing the polis taking the family out in the patrol car..

 

[PC Electrics]

In my previous life, I had a company car for business use only. Because my employer was 110 miles away i was allowed to keep it at home. No tax paid on car. I still had my own car as well.

 

[Deleted member 26818]

aye,quite often seeing the polis taking the family out in the patrol car..

Perhaps in rural areas, but in London very unlikely.
It may be that with cars, it depends on whether you are the registered keeper, and whether you have a permanent place of work.

 

[GLENNSPARK]

aye,quite often seeing the polis taking the family out in the patrol car..

Or...ayup...traffic jam: on go the sirens (till they have got past the jam of course)...........

 

[cbw]

The accountant deals with all the tax angles, all above board, as mentioned I believe it has something to do with sign written racked out vans and private cars.....way beyond me, thats what the grey suits are for!!!

My old unmarked Ambulance car...................

In many years of having unmarked cars I can honestly say I have never used them inapropriately, I have however responded to VERY serious emergencies with my family in the car, the car was permenently tracked and fitted with a radio so if I was near to a job WHILST OFF DUTY they would radio me to request help, family in car or not!.

 

[brucelee]

when i worked for a electrical contractors we just got paid either price work or day rate

as for getting paid for travel never happened we would drive more than 4 hrs in a day from one site to another all over north west and still had to wire the houses no matter how long it took upto 22 hrs a day if five houses needed doing 5 we did
from here to barrow then back to wirral or huddersfield or wherever lol every junction of m6 and most on 62 , and any other junction on any motorway in north west childwall, allerton and other side of the mersey think its wallasey

wherever there was house needed first fixing ,second fixing or snagging eg central heating and garage if seperate

by the end of the week we didnt know wether we was here or there and the day rate and price work was a joke to say the least and the old escort vans he had took some stick even with the remoulds
you guys wouldnt have turned the alram clock off for what i wired houses for lol