so i just happened to come across this post and its caught my interest.

i work for one employer doing in house forklift training but we have many sites all spread out, some as far as an hour away, and i commute there and back in addition to my normal working day.

your right Wiggy, it does add up to a considerabe amount. i wonder if it matters whether the person is hourly paid or salary paid?

where would i get more info?

As far as I'm aware it's not a new law, its an eu law which has been around for some time! It just took a group of 'home care' worker's (my better half works in this sector and the changes happend quickly) to take it to court and win to draw attention to the issue and the law itself - it's starting to snowball now, my current employer made you give them a hour a day travelling for nowt for years and their in the process of abolishing it now! About time too! When you work it out across a year it's a few grand!

I know someone in California who is going thru this exact thing. It has been an unwritten rule that a mobile tech gave up 30 minutes of their time in the morning and the afternoon. After new labor laws if you are under the company control even if a mobile tech is leaving their place of residence they are to get paid. I know they are still working out the details on this.

Bit vague... What's not worth doing !

we still get door to door not worth doing otherwise