Do you get penalised at work when transport systems fail?

[Proofraider]

When transport services shut down completely (as they did between E Anglia and London yesterday) and there's really no way for you to get to work, are you expected to take that time off as leave? The firm I work for expects staff to take a leave day or, if they've got no leave left, an unpaid day. What happens at other work places?

[squarebear]

If I can't get into work, I am expected to take the time off as leave. They have employed me to do a job. It's not their fault if I can't get in.

[bednobs]

same as here. They made a super special exception when we had some extraordinary snowfall one year, but that was because it affected almost everybody who works here

[R1Geezer]

It is the responsibility of the employee to get to work, end of. There is never really "No way" to get to work.

[squarebear]

Yes, we only had one exception when we had terrible flooding but people who didn't come in were expected to work late over the next few days to make up for it.

[sara3]

I work for the government and would be expected to go to the nearest office to me if I couldn't get into work.