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Workplace Rules For Break Entitlement

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Jenarry | 11:46 Tue 01st May 2018 | Jobs & Education
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For a lot of years (and then when current owners took over 10yrs ago) anyone in our workplace who works 6hours is entitled to a paid break . It used to be half hour then not so long ago it went down to 15 minutes.
Then last Friday our supervisor went into the staffroom where 2 of my colleagues were taking a break and told them that from the following week anyone working 6 hrs would not be entitled to a break. This doesn't affect me with my current hours but it does affect a few others on a daily basis. She had a printout of some workplace rules that she showed them but didn't even leave them to read properly she just walked out with it.
Is this right. I think what they are working on is the fact it says anyone working 'over' 6 hours.
Also we have had a new lady start the same week and unusually they have given 6 1/4 hour shifts so she gets to have a break which has bothered people,
can they change peoples breaks like this with very little notice . I don't think there is anything in our contract about breaks . We are a very busy small workplace with around a dozen staff. Staff are on the go from the second they arrive til going,running around like there's no tomorrow and feel the break is much needed even just for a breather.
I hear a lot of the staff aren't happy and are job hunting.
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Yes the working time regulations state anyone working 6 hours is entitled to a 20 minute break
http://www.acas.org.uk/index.aspx?articleid=1373
The acas one states A 20min break if working longer that 6 hours too
They are within the law, just, if they limit staff to 6 hour shifts.
It may be worth raising it with them if a lot of staff are unhappy.
Was there any reference to breaks in your contracts?

By the way though, some companies don't pay during breaks. Sainsbury's have just stopped paying for breaks and a few other things in order to fund a pay 'rise'.
The NHS in general don't pay for breaks.
i think your colleagues have been lucky so far. In the NHS for the last 13 years, i have worked 9-5 but been paid for 7.5 hours per day. My break has never been paid
If you work more than 6 hours you are entitled to a break, paid or otherwise is up to the employer to decide.
You could suggest an unpaid break and then pethaps finish a bit later.

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