Time off in lieu, what's the point?

As others have said you decide more or less when you take it off. Meaning you could give yourself a 4 day weekend to go away and thus save AL for some other time.
 
The way it works at my place is that you have to take it the same week! So any overtime on Friday will be free and Thursday too because Friday is too short of a notice to leave??
 
Worked a couple weekend last year and earned 4 days extra holiday. Work needed the work doing, I had no other plans and got to work from home, and I got to go on holiday for longer. Works great for me :)!
 
They tried to get people to take TOIL instead of paid overtime here .... didn't go down well and didn't work when the people who do the most overtime pointed out that their contract specifically stated they were paid for overtime ...
 
EVH said:
I got asked to edit a video for work, because they know "I'm good with computers".

My boss asked me how long it took as I was doing the editing at home and I said 4hrs. Bingo, 4hrs in lieu. It took 30 minutes :cool:
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Nice way to steal from the company.:D

TOIL is great get in an hour early, leave an hour late every day and have a 3 day weekend. Nothing really got done on a friday so we were actually more efficient for the company.
 
mattyg said:
Nice way to steal from the company.:D
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I know you're joking but even if he claimed 10 hours he'd still have probably be saving his company money (depending on how much him not being there for 10 hours is valued monetarily of course).

It would have cost them a lot more to hire a company to produce the video for them.
 
I get nothing for overtime, no pay and no time in lieu, so time in lieu isn't too bad. I don't rate it though, when you do overtime it's usually when you're really busy, and when you get to take it you are 'usually' quiet.
 
This is interesting as where I work our boss isn't keen on giving TOIL as it always leaves us short staffed, so we get time and half overtime instead, cant complain!
 
I can chose either pay or TOIL. I nearly always go for TOIL. Had to do some server work on a Saturday a month ago. 9 hours work equated to 18 hours TOIL (double time)

Two full days off work and some early finishes. Bliss.
 
ajf said:
I don't do masses of overtime so perhaps a bit different but I have always preferred TOIL to actual pay.
If it is only a few hours it often doesn't amount to a great deal after tax etc.
Rather have a half day or day extra holiday to use.
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me as well

I pop in on a saturday morning every now and then just to check up on office staff and see if they need any support stuff doing..I could take the money, but in reality the time is more valuable to me as I can use it to leave early when the weather is good in the fishing season!
 
I accrue about 80 hours of toil a year but my company operate a soft ceiling of 15hours in our bank at any time, and try to encourage us to reduce this to 0, we can however go into negative toil which is strange.
 
my overtime only exists as covering the phones for bank holidays. I work a much shorter day than usual from home rather than the office and get a full day off for it. I won't complain :)
 
I usually get TOIL if I have to stay late to work on a pitch, I don't mind that so much, but coming in over the weekend I won't do unless i'm paid freelance rates, I'd rather be with the family anyway.
 
As a manager I'm not allowed to pay overtime, just TOIL, same applies to me.

It works fine if everyone is reasonable, in times of crisis everyone gets the job done, and the time is banked and taken back at a mutually agreeable time.

For me in 99.9% of cases is means staying 30-60 mins over.

Depends on the industry though, with us Friday afternoons are usually dead, and people like to get off early on Fridays.
 
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mattyg said:
TOIL is great get in an hour early, leave an hour late every day and have a 3 day weekend. Nothing really got done on a friday so we were actually more efficient for the company.
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Er, isn't that more like flexitime?

I view TOIL as the company just being a cheapskate. What good is a Monday off when everyone else including the girlfriend are at work etc. For those saying you can take a week off when you fancy, again.. what good is it unless you want to go away on your todd?

I used to do a job where ever day you never knew how much work you'd get.. on nights too. The amount of times I worked 3-4hrs extra on the end of a nightshift, usually into a Saturday morning hence ruining my weekend (and on occasion holiday plans) was ridiculous. What did they do? Turn around and give me a DOIL. Yeah thanks, you ruined my weekend now I get a Tuesday off with nothing to do but sit on my arse watching TV. Great :rolleyes: What a company should be doing is reimbursing their workforce properly for making the extra effort to get the job done.

(Glad I'm out of that job now!)
 
^^^ Yeah probably.

My father in law once had 9 months of because of TOIL. He worked for local government and couldnt get time off
 
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