Travelling to work is also work, rules european court

1. Travelling to work is also
work, rules European court

2. Contd..
A landmark judgement by the European Court of Justice (ECJ), which
also binds Britain, has said that a time a person takes to travel to work
and to return home will have to be counted as working time under the
law. Till now, the time employees clocked into the office and left it
physically was considered the official time they devoted to work. The
ruling revolves around a legal case in Spain involving Tyco, a security
systems company which involves installing and maintaining antitheft
security systems. In 2011 Tyco closed its offices in the provinces and
assigned all its employees to the central office in Madrid. In some cases
now, wor kers have to drive over three hours covering 100 kms to reach
their client's homes.

3. Contd..
Tyco counts the time spent travelling between home and customers
not as working time, but as a rest period. ECJ ruled that workers
without a fixed office should be able to charge for the time such
journeys last.
The Court said, “ Not taking those journeys into account would enable
Tyco to claim that only the time spent carrying out the activity of
installing and maintaining the security systems falls within the concept
of working time, which would distort that concept and jeopardise the
objective of protecting the safety and health of workers“.

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