I’m employed as a driver for a fairly large company, salaried to do 48 hours per week. I always do more than 48 hours a week and so steadily build up hours that are owed to me. I was called up for Jury service and got selected, which resulted in me having to do 6 days Jury service, which I quite rightly wasn’t paid for by my employer. I was owed 56 hours before the Jury service began. As my employers use WTD to track how many hours are owed to drivers and Jury service can go through as ZERO hours, they now think they owe me nothing.
Think of it this way. You are owed 48 hours by your employer. You take a weeks unpaid leave. You come back and your owed hours are gone and they haven’t paid you for the week. Hardly fair is it?
I’ve argued with them but they refuse to see it from my point of view. My issue is not with the WTD, but with the way they are trying to use it to wipe out hours owed to drivers. They seem to think that advice from VOSA and the FTA is all they need, despite neither of those agencies having anything to do with employment and wages law.