Mobile workers’ travel to and from first and last assignment 


Mobile workers (those whose job involves travelling from place to place, instead of being based in a specific location) are entitled to at least the NMW for time spent travelling to and from the first and last appointment of the day (Federacion de Servicios Privados del sindicato Comisiones obreras v Tyco Integrated Security SL [2015] EUECJ C-266/14).



The Tyco case concerned “working time” rights under the Working Time Directive, rather than National Minimum Wage law (see Working Time, Mobile Workers, page 114). Even so, the ruling has implications for pay negotiations concerning travel time for low-paid, mobile hourly-paid workers because their hourly rate in a relevant pay reference period must not fall below the NMW, once travel time has been added to their working day.