Time for Time Hours: Ask for your Legal Advice


Questioner

I have a question about writing 'time for time (TVT)' hours when you travel outside of your working hours for a business appointment. I have a difference of opinion with my employer. Normally I leave the office at 17:30 and am home at 18:15. So on a normal working day I have 0.45 minutes of travel time. Recently I had to go to a meeting in the south of the Netherlands. I was home at 22:30. In my experience I can then write 5 hours of TVT. I have read on various legal websites (also FNV) that travel time 'under the authority of the employer' is considered working time. I had a business appointment, so this falls under 'the authority of the employer'. My manager does not agree with this, he says that I can write 4.15 hours because you have to count from the time that you would normally be home. In my experience my home-work travel time is separate from this, after all I choose this travel time of 3/4 hour myself, so consciously my own time. I try to support my position with the following argumentation: when someone lives next to work, so to speak, he never has any commuting time and therefore the calculation starts at 17:30 because it is simply the end of working hours. Isn't it fair that I have to deduct 3/4 of an hour because I do have commuting time on a normal working day? From that perspective, commuting time always works to my disadvantage. I would like to hear what you think about this and/or whether there are any legal guidelines for this.

Lawyer

I agree with your manager, unfortunately. Unless your normal travel time is also under the authority of the employer, it is 4.15 hours. It also depends on your collective labor agreement.

Questioner

Thanks for your response, but you do not argue your position. Is this your opinion or is it legally based?

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