With the clocks going back this weekend, will it affect those paid by the hour?

I hope someone who knows will answer this. I've never thought about that before, but now I'm also really curious! :-)

What a fabulous question (but I have no idea about an answer and now this is really intriguing me too!) If nobody has ever questioned this before you may well have opened the floodgates for millions of people claiming for their unpaid hours for years and years!!

I would have thought you'd get paid for the number of hours you work regardless of the times involved. But if you are due to finish work at say 1.30 can you go at the first 1.30 or do you have to continue to the second?

I suppose it's swings and roundabouts. If you work nights, in the autumn you work an extra (possibly unpaid) hour but in the spring you would work one hour less and presumably get paid at the usual rate for the shift. If you get paid by the hour you should be paid for the number of hours worked - and that means an extra hour on Saturday night.

We never got to the bottom of this did we? Isn't there anyone on the forum who gets paid by the hour - so they could tell us what happened last Autumn and in Spring. I think the clocks go back soon so this question becomes relevant again (and I still really want to know the answer).

Ooh what a good question, if it werre me I'd be hoping for an extra hours pay!