Possible strike action over unpaid travel time


The PCS union has called on the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) to clarify whether its driving examiner members have a workplace, and can start their day there, or they have no workplace and every journey is work, in a dispute over a number of issues including travel time. 


A European Court of Justice ruling in 2015 said that workers without a usual workplace should count every journey as working time. Meanwhile, the union says it is not acceptable to send people off to roadside checks and other workplaces without including the journey in their working time, and without allowing them to go to their contractual usual workplace first. 


Earlier this month, 84% of PCS operational members at the DVSA voted in favour of strike action over the changes to their contracts that will see them forced to add an unpaid hour and a half to every working day.


https://www.pcs.org.uk/department-for-transport/news/industrial-action-ballot-result

https://www.pcs.org.uk/news/driving-examiners-ballot-for-strike-action-over-increased-hours