Working Uniforms

[djheme]

Hello...
My company provide the uniforms to use in our jobs and i want know if they need to gives time, in the working hours, to change for our civil clothes... This is because they dont want to gives that time... they want we clock in/out with uniform.. what i think is wrong, because we are not aloud to live the building (Hospital) with the same uniform.. And like this we losse our time, not the company time to do it.. I Want to know if is some law for that..
In our contracs they dont expecifie that...
Thank u Very much for your time..

[welshlibranr]

Not sure, dj, but my sister is a nurse, and is expected to arrive on the ward at the time her shift starts in her uniform, she too is not allowed to wear it to or from work..............

[karenmac60]

I had the same working in both a supermarket and a nursing home. You'd dress for work in your own time if you were changing at home so what's the difference? You are not working while changing clothes so you shouldn't expect to get paid for it.

[buildersmate]

You need to be ready for work by the appointed time - so that means already changed into uniform.
So changing is in your time.
But is really such a big deal?

[evil__sheep]

how long does it take you to get changed fgs?

[bushbaby_de]

The only exception to this would be if you use company transport to get to work, and are then expected to change, as you then have no choice as to what time you arrive. For example I used to work on an army base, and we had to change when we got there, but we also had to enter the site on a bus provided by the site, so we were paid from the moment we arrived even though we then got ten minutes to get changed. If you make your own way to site I would say you are meant to arrive early enough to change then present yourself at your post at the start of your shift.

[RATTER15]

You get ready for work in your own time and you get dressed into your own clothes in your own time, you cant expect your employer to be paying for dressing and undressing.

[boxtops]

This issue has come up again in the nursing press, that if staff go home in their uniforms, or wash their uniforms at home, there is a risk of cross-infection. I don't wear a uniform - I don't expect the employer to pay me dressing time, I don't think you should either.

[RATTER15]

"expecifie" ive never heard that one?