{"id":3291,"date":"2015-12-27T15:22:03","date_gmt":"2015-12-27T15:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/?p=3291"},"modified":"2016-04-15T11:01:27","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T11:01:27","slug":"work-and-bad-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/articles\/work-and-bad-weather","title":{"rendered":"Work and Bad Weather &#8211; What You Need to Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3292\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/snow-on-cars-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"snow-on-cars\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/snow-on-cars-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/snow-on-cars-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/snow-on-cars-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/snow-on-cars.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s snow joke getting up on a mid-winter morning and finding the roads are treacherous to drive on.<\/p>\n<p>But what\u2019s the legal situation for employees and bosses in extreme weather conditions?<\/p>\n<p>The Citizens Advice Bureau, in conjunction with the Labour Relations Agency, offers the following advice:<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Employee\u2019s rights and responsibilities<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As an employee:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>you are obliged to be at work unless you are ill or taking annual leave, and the onus is on you to get to work even in extreme weather, however, you should not risk your safety to get to your workplace. You have no legal right to be paid if you do not go into work, unless your contract specifies it.<\/li>\n<li>you should find out whether your employer has a specific policy in place for bad weather which explains what is expected of you in extreme situations<\/li>\n<li>you do have the right to unpaid time off to deal with emergencies involving dependent family members, particularly when child care has been disrupted. A reasonable amount of time off would be the rest of the day at most.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>Employers rights and responsibilities<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As an employer you should consider flexible working arrangements for staff during extreme weather conditions. Options include allowing them to work at home if it\u2019s practical, take a day\u2019s holiday, or make the time up at a later date.<\/li>\n<li>You can\u2019t force staff to take annual holiday if they are against the idea, unless there is a clause in their contract allowing you to direct when annual leave is taken<\/li>\n<li>You should normally pay staff if you have to temporarily close the business at short notice because of the weather and there is no work available as a result (unless there is a \u2018temporary lay-off\u2019 clause in their contracts, or it is an established custom and practice to operate in this way)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It\u2019s good practice for managers to outline company policy before the bad weather sets in and this can avoid a chill in working relationships!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s snow joke getting up on a mid-winter morning and finding the roads are treacherous to drive on. But what\u2019s the legal situation for employees and bosses in extreme weather conditions? The Citizens Advice Bureau, in conjunction with the Labour Relations Agency, offers the following advice: Employee\u2019s rights and responsibilities As an employee: you are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Office_Workers"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Work and Bad Weather - What You Need to Know<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"What\u2019s the legal situation for employees and bosses in extreme weather conditions?\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/articles\/work-and-bad-weather\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Work and Bad Weather - What You Need to Know\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"What\u2019s the legal situation for employees and bosses in extreme weather conditions?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/articles\/work-and-bad-weather\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"paperstone\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-12-27T15:22:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2016-04-15T11:01:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/image.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"300\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"225\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Paperstone\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@paperstone\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@paperstone\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Paperstone\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.paperstone.co.uk\\\/News\\\/articles\\\/work-and-bad-weather#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.paperstone.co.uk\\\/News\\\/articles\\\/work-and-bad-weather\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Paperstone\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.paperstone.co.uk\\\/News\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/16493c53ebac7f24b6afedd03648489b\"},\"headline\":\"Work and Bad Weather &#8211; What You Need to Know\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-12-27T15:22:03+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-04-15T11:01:27+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.paperstone.co.uk\\\/News\\\/articles\\\/work-and-bad-weather\"},\"wordCount\":346,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.paperstone.co.uk\\\/News\\\/articles\\\/work-and-bad-weather#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.paperstone.co.uk\\\/News\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2015\\\/12\\\/image.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Office Workers\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.paperstone.co.uk\\\/News\\\/articles\\\/work-and-bad-weather#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.paperstone.co.uk\\\/News\\\/articles\\\/work-and-bad-weather\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.paperstone.co.uk\\\/News\\\/articles\\\/work-and-bad-weather\",\"name\":\"Work and Bad Weather - What You Need to Know\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.paperstone.co.uk\\\/News\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.paperstone.co.uk\\\/News\\\/articles\\\/work-and-bad-weather#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.paperstone.co.uk\\\/News\\\/articles\\\/work-and-bad-weather#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.paperstone.co.uk\\\/News\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2015\\\/12\\\/image.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-12-27T15:22:03+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-04-15T11:01:27+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.paperstone.co.uk\\\/News\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/16493c53ebac7f24b6afedd03648489b\"},\"description\":\"What\u2019s the legal situation for employees and bosses in extreme weather conditions?\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.paperstone.co.uk\\\/News\\\/articles\\\/work-and-bad-weather\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.paperstone.co.uk\\\/News\\\/articles\\\/work-and-bad-weather#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.paperstone.co.uk\\\/News\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2015\\\/12\\\/image.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.paperstone.co.uk\\\/News\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2015\\\/12\\\/image.jpg\",\"width\":300,\"height\":225},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.paperstone.co.uk\\\/News\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.paperstone.co.uk\\\/News\\\/\",\"name\":\"\",\"description\":\"Paperstone - Office life, work and fun\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.paperstone.co.uk\\\/News\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.paperstone.co.uk\\\/News\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/16493c53ebac7f24b6afedd03648489b\",\"name\":\"Paperstone\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/38531a8b455ff4fb539b7f5a92e1b4f9d7cf224e86f09d1f1da2db8eb377b78a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/38531a8b455ff4fb539b7f5a92e1b4f9d7cf224e86f09d1f1da2db8eb377b78a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/38531a8b455ff4fb539b7f5a92e1b4f9d7cf224e86f09d1f1da2db8eb377b78a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Paperstone\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.paperstone.co.uk\",\"paperstone\",\"https:\\\/\\\/x.com\\\/paperstone\"]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Work and Bad Weather - What You Need to Know","description":"What\u2019s the legal situation for employees and bosses in extreme weather conditions?","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/articles\/work-and-bad-weather","og_locale":"en_GB","og_type":"article","og_title":"Work and Bad Weather - What You Need to Know","og_description":"What\u2019s the legal situation for employees and bosses in extreme weather conditions?","og_url":"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/articles\/work-and-bad-weather","article_author":"paperstone","article_published_time":"2015-12-27T15:22:03+00:00","article_modified_time":"2016-04-15T11:01:27+00:00","og_image":[{"width":300,"height":225,"url":"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/image.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Paperstone","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@paperstone","twitter_site":"@paperstone","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Paperstone","Estimated reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/articles\/work-and-bad-weather#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/articles\/work-and-bad-weather"},"author":{"name":"Paperstone","@id":"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/#\/schema\/person\/16493c53ebac7f24b6afedd03648489b"},"headline":"Work and Bad Weather &#8211; What You Need to Know","datePublished":"2015-12-27T15:22:03+00:00","dateModified":"2016-04-15T11:01:27+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/articles\/work-and-bad-weather"},"wordCount":346,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/articles\/work-and-bad-weather#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/image.jpg","articleSection":["Office Workers"],"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/articles\/work-and-bad-weather#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/articles\/work-and-bad-weather","url":"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/articles\/work-and-bad-weather","name":"Work and Bad Weather - What You Need to Know","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/articles\/work-and-bad-weather#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/articles\/work-and-bad-weather#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/image.jpg","datePublished":"2015-12-27T15:22:03+00:00","dateModified":"2016-04-15T11:01:27+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/#\/schema\/person\/16493c53ebac7f24b6afedd03648489b"},"description":"What\u2019s the legal situation for employees and bosses in extreme weather conditions?","inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/articles\/work-and-bad-weather"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/articles\/work-and-bad-weather#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/image.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/image.jpg","width":300,"height":225},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/","name":"","description":"Paperstone - Office life, work and fun","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/#\/schema\/person\/16493c53ebac7f24b6afedd03648489b","name":"Paperstone","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/38531a8b455ff4fb539b7f5a92e1b4f9d7cf224e86f09d1f1da2db8eb377b78a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/38531a8b455ff4fb539b7f5a92e1b4f9d7cf224e86f09d1f1da2db8eb377b78a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/38531a8b455ff4fb539b7f5a92e1b4f9d7cf224e86f09d1f1da2db8eb377b78a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Paperstone"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk","paperstone","https:\/\/x.com\/paperstone"]}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}