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Custom And Practice
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I have worked for the same company for 23yrs and irrellevant to what hour's I have worked have alway's enjoyed the benefit of paid tea break's (not lunch) I appreciate that it is not alway's common practice for employer's to pay for break's but as we have alway's been paid does this form part of an unwritten contract ie Custom and Practice and if so can my employer suddenly stop doing so without my agreement ?
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as an anecdote only:
in my previous job i had 2 20 minute paid breaks over an 8 hour day and an unoaid 1hour lunch, when i changed jobs in 2009 i discovered a recent change in the law and apparently all breaks were unpaid and only 2 half hours a day with an 8 hours paid day. It apparently applied to new starters but the company had negotiated the contract change with existing staff and 'bought' the breaks off them. i don't know what that involved however
in my previous job i had 2 20 minute paid breaks over an 8 hour day and an unoaid 1hour lunch, when i changed jobs in 2009 i discovered a recent change in the law and apparently all breaks were unpaid and only 2 half hours a day with an 8 hours paid day. It apparently applied to new starters but the company had negotiated the contract change with existing staff and 'bought' the breaks off them. i don't know what that involved however