dozy:
robroy:
dozy:
Why is your night out money not part of your wage ? , if your parking is paid by the company & you park at a services you get a voucher ( normally £10 ) , so that pays for your evening meal , you then get a £15 meal allowance per day ( stobarts ) which pays for your breakfast / dinner ( £7.50 ) should get you something decent for each meal , so your night out allowance is yours to use as part of your wage
The only ones who’d have to use there night out allowance / part of it are the one who get a fiver a day meal allowance but they’d still be hard pushed to spend 26.00 a day on food , unless there gready
I always counted my night out allowance as part of my wage as the £15 meal allowance + food I took fed me ok , then there was the £10 meal voucher if I parked at services I could use at m/s
Mostly because firms use that interpretation by some drivers to their advantage.
If you are on say 25 quid a n/o 5 x 25 =£125, so when they advertise a poor wage, that 125 bumps it up to look more attractive.
N/o money is classed as ‘‘subsistence’ if you re going to park in a lay by with yer pot noodle, I suppose essentially it becomes part of your wage, if you are going to spend a substantial part of it on a decent evening meal, maybe a drink, the amount you have left is a bonus.
I personally have never counted my n/‘o money as part of my wage…and neither for being …’‘An unpaid security guard, kipping in a tin box,.after having a Ginsters pie and a wet wipe wash’’…(.just thought I would be the first to get those old chestnuts in the mix btw. 
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Mine is 26 quid plus 4 and a half quid a day meal allowance, which bumps it up to £30 .50 for me.(plus any parking charges on top…as it should be.)
I’ve never eat a pot noodle in my life , and only the odd can of lilt ( I always drank cans of cider , it helps with stress ) , ginsters pastys , no
How is it a interpretations rob , it’s fact , if I parked in a services I got a £10 meal voucher , a £15 meal allowance per day ( that’s £25 per day for food + what I took with me ) , so my night out allowance was mine , so as far as I was concerned it was part of my wage ( what else would it be )
I understand every one does different things at the end of the shift , if you go to the pub then you could spend it I’d guess , but a large majority don’t so to me your night out money / or a big part of it is yours / so it’s part of your wage
The last company I did a fair bit of work for paid £28 night out money / £10 meal allowance , paid parking & a lorry with a fridge / microwave , are you really going to spend you £28 n/o& £10 m/a ( £38 ) a day on food when you’ve a microwave / fridge in lorry , I can’t see it ( nb I was days / agency )
Anyway it’s time for my ham salad / Greek yougurt & a glass of water ( ZB diabetis ) , enjoy your pub food rob
As I said doze it s an interpretation…ie how you personally interpret it/understand it,/take it, or chose to accept it, if you want to include it as your wage, then fair do’s.
I ve never been wary of spending it on nights out,.especially on a night ferry in the past for instance, .as that is when you start to look on it and depend on it as part of your wage if there is nowt left at end of week, so you miss it.
I personally interpret it in it’s literal sense, and how it was originally paid in the first place…‘‘subsistence’’ or ‘expenses’ , ie money paid to ‘Support yourself on a night away from home’'.I’m always wary of firms who try and con you by including potential 5 nights out money in wages advertised.
Of course I dont pay 30 quid every time I stop out, but if I have any of it left at end of week, I look upon it as ‘expenses left over’ rather than part of my wage, .
I know it’s maybe 6 and two threes as to how you consider it (or as I said interpret it) but that has always been my take on it anyhoo,.I suppose it all goes in the bank the same.
Enjoy yer salad. 
