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Or anyone that knows the laws regarding the monitoring/tracking of vehicles
Our company has recently started to really penny pinch, making us put down to the exact minute of leaving in the morning, arriving home etc. This is fine, as what this will do is cost them slightly more as in general we would all round the times, I.e if we left at 06:58 to get to site for 8am, we'd put travel time 07:00-08:00.
We are all site based, we have regional offices which we go to every now and then, but it is 90% satellite work so we go straight to our jobs. Deductions wise or mileage and commute time, they will take a maximum of 26 miles each way, and the commute time of our home address to our designated office from us
For example, I'm 30 minutes from the office, 31 miles away. So I'll get deducted 1h hour each day, and and pay £0.13 per mile (VW Transporter, it's £0.10 for a VW Caddy) They've 'capped' this for unfortunate employees who live ages away from the office, to 26 miles each way and 45 minutes deduction each way. So maximum deduction is 90minutes travel, 52 miles to pay
All our vans (and cars) are installed with RAC+ advanced trackers or whatever they're called. We have no button function to press when using them privately (I have my van set to personal use also, so I pay whatever it is per year/month additional) Am I right in thinking work vans should have the buttons fitted so they can't monitor private use? Obviously we are obligated to still input our private mileage for that use, but I've tried researching this and it says there should be a privacy button
Does any of this sound right or make any sense? Hope I've explained it properly, we have a contract and an 'employee handbook' which they will strictly refer to when we have any questions, but this book is digital and updated quite regularly so most of us haven't a clue what is really going on here
Our company has recently started to really penny pinch, making us put down to the exact minute of leaving in the morning, arriving home etc. This is fine, as what this will do is cost them slightly more as in general we would all round the times, I.e if we left at 06:58 to get to site for 8am, we'd put travel time 07:00-08:00.
We are all site based, we have regional offices which we go to every now and then, but it is 90% satellite work so we go straight to our jobs. Deductions wise or mileage and commute time, they will take a maximum of 26 miles each way, and the commute time of our home address to our designated office from us
For example, I'm 30 minutes from the office, 31 miles away. So I'll get deducted 1h hour each day, and and pay £0.13 per mile (VW Transporter, it's £0.10 for a VW Caddy) They've 'capped' this for unfortunate employees who live ages away from the office, to 26 miles each way and 45 minutes deduction each way. So maximum deduction is 90minutes travel, 52 miles to pay
All our vans (and cars) are installed with RAC+ advanced trackers or whatever they're called. We have no button function to press when using them privately (I have my van set to personal use also, so I pay whatever it is per year/month additional) Am I right in thinking work vans should have the buttons fitted so they can't monitor private use? Obviously we are obligated to still input our private mileage for that use, but I've tried researching this and it says there should be a privacy button
Does any of this sound right or make any sense? Hope I've explained it properly, we have a contract and an 'employee handbook' which they will strictly refer to when we have any questions, but this book is digital and updated quite regularly so most of us haven't a clue what is really going on here
