Working time directive - minimum break times

[wiggal]

Hi guys,

Just wondering, where I work, most of us are temps. The shift times are either 7.45 - 5PM or 9 - 6PM.

We are allowed a 30 minute lunch break, and 2 x 5 minute breaks, one in the morning and one in the afternoon.

Just trying to find out if this is the bare minimum, or if that because it certainly feels like a very long day!

Ta! :-)

[dotty.]

yes it is

[Buenchico]

The only rule about breaks (for adult workers) is that if you work a shift of over six hours you must receive a single (unpaid) break of 20 minutes (which must not be at the very start or end of the shift).

Shifts of exactly 6 hours (or of less than 6 hours don't have any break entitlement at all). Further, the break entitlement is neither 'cumulative' nor 'pro rata'. So, if your shift is 12 hours, 18 hours or 24 hours long, you're still only entitled to a single 20 minute break.

http://www.direct.gov...ndTimeOff/DG_10029451

Chris

[factor-fiction]

You are getting more than the minimum which I recall is 20 minutes over a day of this length.

[ABerrant]

An adult worker (over 18) will normally have the right to a 20 minute unpaid rest break if expected to work more than six hours at a stretch. The break must be in one block not at the end of the shift.

http://www.direct.gov...ndTimeOff/DG_10029451