Unbelievably there has been a recent case going through the Courts where an employer tried to maintain that they shouldn't be liable to pay their employee for the time it took them to move between clients during the working day. The employee was a care worker providing this service at clients' homes and the company refused to pay her for travelling time between appointments.

Thankfully, common sense prevailed and the Court ruled that the employee was entitled to being paid for this travelling time – albeit that this only had to be at National Minimum Wage rate rather than the normal rate she received for carrying out her care worker duties.

This seems to me to say so much about this particular employer and how they view their employees. It is such a penny pinching exercise (that they allowed to go all the way to a Court Case) that must have caused so much ill-will between them and their team – even more ironic as they are in the care service industry.

For the more technically minded amongst you the case in question was Whittlestone vs BJP Home Support Ltd 2013. Just put the name into Google if you want more information or reaction from others to this case.