Comment on Bosses and workers still can’t agree on whether the commute is part of the work day, and it’s creating a $578 billion productivity problem

krigo666@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• alvvayson@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That ruling is limited. It only applies for jobs where there is no local job site, e.g. construction workers who have changing construction sites.

  If you work in an office or factory, or if your work is limited to a certain region (e.g. you clean houses in an area), then commuting to the office/factory/region is not part of the work day.

  Otherwise you would get weird situations where people could apply to distant jobs and the employer having to pay those costs and hours. Get a job with a 2 hour one-way commute and you would then only need to work 4 hours… obviously not going to work.

  Many employers in Europe actually do pay for some or all commute costs in order to attract workers, but usually they don’t pay for the commute hours.

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  • gataloca@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Otherwise you would get weird situations where people could apply to distant jobs and the employer having to pay those costs and hours. Get a job with a 2 hour one-way commute and you would then only need to work 4 hours… obviously not going to work.

    From an employee perspective, that’s not much of a problem but the solution is hardly complicated either. Wouldn’t employers just not hire people who live too far from the work site?

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• Squizzy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Our union has refused to push the company on this. They said it is an eu directive not a law.

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