I am currently working as a Compliance Auditor in a Retail environment and is required to travel extensively to get to the specific locations. Upon questioning management if the time travelled will be taken into consideration with regarding to working hours, the following response was received:

"I’ve excluded travel time as this is part and parcel of Internal Audit, and so is the principle of working additional hours.  I have not worked for any company where there was not a time on an audit that you had to put in a bit of extra time."

What I would like to know as to what legislation is regarding working hours for employees earning more than the threshold, as well as what is legislation saying about the time taken to travel for work purposes? If possible also where in the Law can I find this?

In short management expects me to travel before and after working hours, without any concern for Health and Safety.