Power cut, sent home.

[northernladuk]

Difficult one.... All those saying no work no pay though - would you be pleased if you drove 200 miles turned up at the door and client said sorry no work today?

No one would be pleased but that's not the issue is it. It's about whether he should get paid which is laid out in the contract.

Worked at one client. They asked us all to work outside normal hours. This was post-contract issue so had to be added.

Anyway they did a rota all leading up to go live on the thursday and included day or two after. So all went 100% on thursday no issue but they didnt bother telling anyone they were canning the rota.

Friday evening this guy turned up having been down to do 12 hours from 7pm. He lived away so had stayed over Thursday night and all day Friday because he was down to work Friday. The client just left a note with security guard to say tell him no thanks he can go home. Not quite sure why they didnt contact him but I thought this was well off.

I would have been well peed off with this because apparently they refused to pay the guy too.

Thanks for that. Very useful.

[Chuck]

Was a case of arriving at 7:30 a.m. as usual, power going out just after 8, and being sent home at 11:30 after being told it would be back on soon for 3 + hours.

All the business critical folks were sat in the DR site somewhere out of London.

Sounds exactly like what happened at my client a few weeks back. There was a fire in a basement so we weren't allowed in to the building. Then once we were back in the power failed. Shambles.

I wouldn't have minded the day off but I got sent to the DR site.

[northernladuk]

Sounds exactly like what happened at my client a few weeks back. There was a fire in a basement so we weren't allowed in to the building. Then once we were back in the power failed. Shambles.

I wouldn't have minded the day off but I got sent to the DR site.

One poster not happy they got sent home, another not happy they didn't. You just can't win

[psychocandy]

No one would be pleased but that's not the issue is it. It's about whether he should get paid which is laid out in the contract.



Thanks for that. Very useful.

Point being that IMHO, obviously dependant on contract wording, that PWD means just. On site for 1 second or 12 hours they pay me.

If the assumption is there that I will be onsite or, as in this case, client asked person to be on site, if I turn up on site for 10 seconds and they say sorry we dont want you to work today then tough, its too late, I'm here, I'll go home if you want but its still a day.

[MrMarkyMark]

Anyway they did a rota all leading up to go live on the thursday and included day or two after. So all went 100% on thursday no issue but they didnt bother telling anyone they were canning the rota.

Friday evening this guy turned up having been down to do 12 hours from 7pm. He lived away so had stayed over Thursday night and all day Friday because he was down to work Friday. The client just left a note with security guard to say tell him no thanks he can go home. Not quite sure why they didnt contact him but I thought this was well off.

I would have been well peed off with this because apparently they refused to pay the guy too.

[northernladuk]

Point being that IMHO, obviously dependant on contract wording, that PWD means just. On site for 1 second or 12 hours they pay me.

If the assumption is there that I will be onsite or, as in this case, client asked person to be on site, if I turn up on site for 10 seconds and they say sorry we dont want you to work today then tough, its too late, I'm here, I'll go home if you want but its still a day.

Seriously? We can argue the exact details of a PWD but not a chance in hell anyone will believe a PWD is turning up on site and going home. That's just stupid.

Is it any wonder you don't get on with your clients if you turn up at the door and expect to be paid for the day. You are completely missing the point about signed timesheets as well. No client is going to sign for a full day when you weren't there.

[LondonManc]

Difficult one.... All those saying no work no pay though - would you be pleased if you drove 200 miles turned up at the door and client said sorry no work today?

Worked at one client. They asked us all to work outside normal hours. This was post-contract issue so had to be added.

Anyway they did a rota all leading up to go live on the thursday and included day or two after. So all went 100% on thursday no issue but they didnt bother telling anyone they were canning the rota.

Friday evening this guy turned up having been down to do 12 hours from 7pm. He lived away so had stayed over Thursday night and all day Friday because he was down to work Friday. The client just left a note with security guard to say tell him no thanks he can go home. Not quite sure why they didnt contact him but I thought this was well off.

I would have been well peed off with this because apparently they refused to pay the guy too.

It's not about being happy, it's about legally having one leg less to stand on that Paul McCartney's ex.

If you've driven 200 miles to work for a single day then that's your lookout. I've done it for an interview and got a call (handsfree) on the way home to say I'd got the gig - that's part of the gamble of living in the north and working in the south.

[NotAllThere]

Difficult one.... All those saying no work no pay though - would you be pleased if you drove 200 miles turned up at the door and client said sorry no work today?...

That's not what happened. You have merely changed the actual question to one that your prefer to argue the toss over.

The situation as stated (half day paid for) has happened to me several times, and it really doesn't bother me.

[VectraMan]

People here like to bang on about their tax avoidance being justified by the risk they take. Well turning up and being told "not today" is about the only risk that contractors take, and as we all know it practically never happens.

It's not really relevant that you're not happy about it.

[SimonMac]

That's not what happened. You have merely changed the actual question to one that your prefer to argue the toss over.

The situation as stated (half day paid for) has happened to me several times, and it really doesn't bother me.

My rule of thumb is what ever side PC is on the opposite is usually right