SCSB79 Posted December 1, 2010 Share Posted December 1, 2010 Guy who lives in the middle of nowheresville down in Kent is stuck. Can't get out of his house to even try and get to the station to see if trains are running.Work are saying he'll have to take it as a days holiday - which I think is very unfair.Is there any black and white "rules" on this? Or is it purely down to the companies own discretion? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14584-not-making-into-work-due-to-snowtravel-rules/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
felt-tip Posted December 1, 2010 Share Posted December 1, 2010 our places usually allows one day off due to serious snow disruption but then you need to figure out alternatives for any days after that or take it as holiday which I think is fair. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14584-not-making-into-work-due-to-snowtravel-rules/#findComment-387884 Share on other sites More sharing options...
paragon Posted December 1, 2010 Share Posted December 1, 2010 I don't think it is fair. It isn't your fault you can't get in. Why should eat into your own holiday because of it. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14584-not-making-into-work-due-to-snowtravel-rules/#findComment-387892 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendan Posted December 1, 2010 Share Posted December 1, 2010 If you can work from home most employers will let you do that. Shirley?Or else you could just say you're ill. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14584-not-making-into-work-due-to-snowtravel-rules/#findComment-387896 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SCSB79 Posted December 1, 2010 Author Share Posted December 1, 2010 Our place must be the only employer that states in their employee manual that no one is allowed to work from home????!!!!! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14584-not-making-into-work-due-to-snowtravel-rules/#findComment-387900 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keef Posted December 1, 2010 Share Posted December 1, 2010 I went to the station, there were no trains, I didn't wait around for them to solve it. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14584-not-making-into-work-due-to-snowtravel-rules/#findComment-387904 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratty Posted December 1, 2010 Share Posted December 1, 2010 WFH or Holiday are our rules! I am in the bath! Don't work Wednesdays! Mmmmmmmmm warmth! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14584-not-making-into-work-due-to-snowtravel-rules/#findComment-387950 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loz Posted December 1, 2010 Share Posted December 1, 2010 SCSB79 Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> Our place must be the only employer that states in> their employee manual that no one is allowed to> work from home????!!!!!Our place used to get very sniffy about people WFHing and used to state that you could only do it if you had the OK of a senior manager and a set task to do. Then they discovered that people working from home was cheaper for them than providing offices and desks... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14584-not-making-into-work-due-to-snowtravel-rules/#findComment-387955 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Posted December 1, 2010 Share Posted December 1, 2010 Don't know if there's any black & white rule. But I would seem extremely mean for a company to force you to take hoilday. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14584-not-making-into-work-due-to-snowtravel-rules/#findComment-387973 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keef Posted December 1, 2010 Share Posted December 1, 2010 Last year when we had lots of snow, Mrs Keef's employers (NHS) allowed them one day, but after that, said they had to use holiday. To me, this is a nonsense. If they allow one day, then they are clearly acknowledging that it is not the fault of the worker, so they should either allow nothing, or allow it all.Obviously there would be people taking the p!ss though, so it's difficult to get the balance. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14584-not-making-into-work-due-to-snowtravel-rules/#findComment-387975 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnL Posted December 1, 2010 Share Posted December 1, 2010 Similar here - but working in IT I know that we had to check we had the bandwidth and licence requirements with so many VPN connections on a snowy day.Loz Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> SCSB79 Wrote:> --------------------------------------------------> -----> > Our place must be the only employer that states> in> > their employee manual that no one is allowed to> > work from home????!!!!!> > Our place used to get very sniffy about people> WFHing and used to state that you could only do it> if you had the OK of a senior manager and a set> task to do. > > Then they discovered that people working from home> was cheaper for them than providing offices and> desks... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14584-not-making-into-work-due-to-snowtravel-rules/#findComment-388000 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramble66 Posted December 1, 2010 Share Posted December 1, 2010 The problem is some people do take the p*ss. My husband managed to get to barking today on public transport. Just had to wait 15mins for a train to LB. It costs the economy a lot of money when it snows. I am self-employed so only ever get paid if I work.... Unsurprisingly I can nearly always manage to get there. There have been times when I have made the effort and if I would have been paid anyway I wouldn't have bothered.It's a very tricky situation. I think 1-2 day limit is fair. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14584-not-making-into-work-due-to-snowtravel-rules/#findComment-388003 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keef Posted December 1, 2010 Share Posted December 1, 2010 Quote My husband managed to get to barking today on public transport.Oh dear, puts me to shame, that's the way I go :-$Saying that, I wouldn't have been able to do any outdoor mobility work with students, so would have been pointless, as I can do paperwork from home. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14584-not-making-into-work-due-to-snowtravel-rules/#findComment-388007 Share on other sites More sharing options...
KalamityKel Posted December 1, 2010 Share Posted December 1, 2010 A little "guidance" Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14584-not-making-into-work-due-to-snowtravel-rules/#findComment-388008 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick Mac Posted December 1, 2010 Share Posted December 1, 2010 I waited for a train at Denmark Hill and got one after > 30 mins. How I will get home is more important. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14584-not-making-into-work-due-to-snowtravel-rules/#findComment-388025 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendan Posted December 1, 2010 Share Posted December 1, 2010 I left work at 4:30 yesterday because I heard the trains from Victoria were a bit arse buggered. I got back to Surrey at 10:30. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14584-not-making-into-work-due-to-snowtravel-rules/#findComment-388042 Share on other sites More sharing options...
VeryBerryCherry Posted December 1, 2010 Share Posted December 1, 2010 Quote It is important that employers adopt a consistent approach and as far as possible provide advanced warning to employees of the approach which will apply.Even in my own company I can't say it's a consistent approach.Consulting staff allowed to WFH and Admin staff generally made to come in come hell or high water (maybe that's the next challenge - this snow business is getting boring anyway.) Consulting staff get 10x ???'s that Admin do.Then we also have: One Admin staff member alllowed to stay at home while another made to take a taxi in.Some sort of standaardized common sense approach would be nice. But yes I know it all depends on where people live. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14584-not-making-into-work-due-to-snowtravel-rules/#findComment-388047 Share on other sites More sharing options...
womanofdulwich Posted December 1, 2010 Share Posted December 1, 2010 i am on shaky ground here but if you have children or other dependents and you know your journey home is going ot take longer that normal I think you should be able to leave a bit earlier.But if you are Brendedd you would have to leave quite a bit earlier. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14584-not-making-into-work-due-to-snowtravel-rules/#findComment-388048 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Santerme Posted December 2, 2010 Share Posted December 2, 2010 I use our office in Highbridge, Somerset most of the time, so a 120 mile round trip by car from my home.Beats Potters Bar or Aylesbury.Today was first time we have been severely snowed on, but managed to get in..Most of my staff can work from home in conditions like this and we do not penalise them for doing so as we operate in a real time environment and we can monitor and manage remotely. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14584-not-making-into-work-due-to-snowtravel-rules/#findComment-388447 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huguenot Posted December 2, 2010 Share Posted December 2, 2010 That sounds intriguing Santerme, what kind of business is it? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14584-not-making-into-work-due-to-snowtravel-rules/#findComment-388496 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sophiesofa Posted December 2, 2010 Share Posted December 2, 2010 My boyfriends work van was snowed in 2 years ago in a car park and he tried for ages to get it out but couldn't so didn't go to work. Southwark council put it down as holiday but for the few that did turn up they got sent home on full pay. Grr Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14584-not-making-into-work-due-to-snowtravel-rules/#findComment-388499 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Posted December 2, 2010 Share Posted December 2, 2010 Santerme - so you don't live in ED? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14584-not-making-into-work-due-to-snowtravel-rules/#findComment-388511 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridgley Posted December 2, 2010 Share Posted December 2, 2010 I work in the Third Sector, my organisation are very flexible I been working from home. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14584-not-making-into-work-due-to-snowtravel-rules/#findComment-388530 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Santerme Posted December 2, 2010 Share Posted December 2, 2010 Huguenot Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> That sounds intriguing Santerme, what kind of> business is it?We actually run several quite diverse businesses within the group, including a manufacturing plant in the US....but the one which requires real time operatives in the UK, is a car and van leasing business (currently around 1,800 vehicles).T Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14584-not-making-into-work-due-to-snowtravel-rules/#findComment-388568 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Santerme Posted December 2, 2010 Share Posted December 2, 2010 Jeremy Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> Santerme - so you don't live in ED?No, I was born there in 1958, went to DKH School, then to boarding school (which I loved for the sports, but loathed for the people), Tulse Hill School of all places and then off to Uni in 1977I live in Cerne Abbas in Dorset as my main residence. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/14584-not-making-into-work-due-to-snowtravel-rules/#findComment-388572 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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