these times you speak of are long gone.
What happens when you have punched out for lunch and are driving to your lunch spot and you T-bone somebody at an intersection...off the clock?Lunch starts when you break trace. THINK ABOUT IT...Everyone would be driving a 15min to their favorite lunch spot and 15min back...You would be getting a 1.5 hour lunch break..Do you want me to take 1.5 hours off your paid day / 7.5 hrs out of your check every week.
True, true ... in many, many ways.
Lunch starts when you break trace. THINK ABOUT IT...Everyone would be driving a 15min to their favorite lunch spot and 15min back...You would be getting a 1.5 hour lunch break..Do you want me to take 1.5 hours off your paid day / 7.5 hrs out of your check every week.
What happens when you have punched out for lunch and are driving to your lunch spot and you T-bone somebody at an intersection...off the clock?
I think I would have just taken the day off....Whether it's December or June, if I have to see a health care professional, that comes before the packages. I'm confident that Sober got permission in writing or in front of a witness before he took this liberty.
There was a day when I felt the kind of dedication Sober does, but those days are long gone and for good reason.
I do not advocate driving past five restaurants to get to "your" favorite one. On my rt. because of NDA, I will most likely will be five minutes from all the places to eat or five minutes from a very expensive golf course with a bar and grill (15.00 for a hamburger fries and coke). Management is telling me I have to spent part of my lunch hour driving back and forth to eat. I dont agree with that. They are forcing me to drive their truck off the clock and I believe that is wrong.I will agree with you that driving 15 minutes and back to a "favorite lunch spot" when there are other options available on trace is not appropriate.
There are routes on my center, however, where a guy might have to drive 15 minutes simply to find a gas station restroom. If you want such employees to stay on a rigidly defined "trace", then as a company you had better be willing to rent Porta-Potties and position them at suitable intervals along that trace.
Your package cars are operated by human beings, and human beings have to pee and poop and wash their hands when they are done.
There seems to be no clear cut definition as far as ups policy goes.If a manager says to drive while on lunch, I believe this is wrong. When a problem occurs (and it eventually will), there will be a knee jerk reaction in an opposite direction.
There seems to be no clear cut definition as far as ups policy goes.
This is off subject a bit but it shows how quickly things can change.
Remember the lunch fiasco in California?
Well,one of the drivers in our center,was not paid when he asked for and was approved
for a code 05.He got no help from either management or the union.
He called the labor board.Policy changed fast.
We now face disciplinary action if we do not show our whole break in the diad.
They HAVE to pay us whatever part of break we don't take.