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**SONAR-BENDER** · 23-04-12, 18:48

Originally Posted by SJRM_RN

Not many civvy employers pay for food when their employees are working away though, do they? I think your case is an exception rather than a norm? Happy to be enlightened.

Read my previous post!

Vosper Thorneycroft, Yarrow Shipbuilders, GEC, Marconi and BAE SYSTEMS to name a couple. Do you HONESTLY think that a company can send an employee somewhere to work for THEM and expect the employee to pay his own food and accom?

Oh yes, I forgot to mention, there was also a hire car and/or flight paid for too.

Or should I get myself from say Portsmouth to say Glasgow, at my own cost, then work all week staying in accomodation that I have paid for and eating evening meals in cheap greasy spoons or chippies, as 'I am paying'?

Discuss.

**Guzzler** · 23-04-12, 19:13

I still don't get this argument. If you are at home you have to pay for the food that you eat - whether in the mess or bought from Morrison's, McDonald's or the local kebab shop. Why on earth should it suddenly become free because you are in a different geographical location?

**SEP86** · 23-04-12, 19:19

The only reason I can see why it should be free is when it costs more than you would normally have to pay.

When I am sent to a PAYD establishment (on any day of the week), the price is the equivalent to being at home so have to pay. When I was sent to New Zealand recently (yes, nice trip) my food was paid for as I didn't have any choice but to eat out. A week later on an exercise, my food from a field kitchen was free.

All seems logical to me.

**frogman007** · 23-04-12, 19:23

Originally Posted by SJRM_RN

Not many civvy employers pay for food when their employees are working away though, do they? I think your case is an exception rather than a norm? Happy to be enlightened.

Utter shit. They do pay for meals and accom when you are away. As a general rule of thumb you get £50 a night, which if you're told at short notice is not enough for B&B and evening meal. If working in London the rate goes up to £75 a night.

**SJRM_RN** · 23-04-12, 19:33

Originally Posted by SONAR-BENDER

Read my previous post!

I did!

So, you answer my post once, then come back at me as if posted another?? Confused of DSC.I was going on the experience of my wife (and her colleagues) who works for a local authority, with no subsidised canteen, who regularly works at different locations and has to provide her own meals.

So ...

Originally Posted by frogman007

Utter shit.

Not quite, unless you are professing to know the policies of every single employer in the UK

And as for overnight accommodation, I was only talking about food (the thread is entitled PAYD!) I am aware that civvy companies pay for overnight accommodation when they send employees away.

**SJRM_RN** · 23-04-12, 19:35

Originally Posted by Guzzler

I still don't get this argument. If you are at home you have to pay for the food that you eat - whether in the mess or bought from Morrison's, McDonald's or the local kebab shop. Why on earth should it suddenly become free because you are in a different geographical location?

My thoughts exactly, which was why I was posting given the experience of the people who work for the local authority where I live.

**Guzzler** · 23-04-12, 19:35

Originally Posted by SJRM_RN

civvy companies pay for overnight accommodation when they send employees away.

...as, of course, do the Navy.

I think the PAYD in the title of this thread is being deliberately ignored.

**frogman007** · 23-04-12, 19:41

Originally Posted by Guzzler

...as, of course, do the Navy.

I think the PAYD in the title of this thread is being deliberately ignored.

I didn't. Civillian companies will pay for meals, though you're normally expected to pay for your own lucch.

**Guzzler** · 23-04-12, 19:44

Because, I assume, they do not provide cheap 'canteen' facilities like the Navy do?

**WreckerL** · 23-04-12, 20:03

Maybe talking out of my hoop but when my eldest gets sent off by his firm he pays for his lunch. If it's an overnight job they pay for the evening meal, accom and brekky.