working hours

[neesh]

can anyone tell me how many hours you can work without a break? i currently work 6 hours a day and am given a 15 min break each day which i have to come into work an hour and 15 mins early every monday to compensate for, i don't get paid for the 75 mins per week, this has been happening for over a year now. thanks in advance.

[Postdog]

Sorry, I doubt I could answer as well as some on here, but I do find your question confusing - what is there to compensate that you have to come in early on a monday for? You either have the break or you don't, as a break is a break. If you are given fifteen minutes (which seems short to me) then you don't have to make that time up elsewhere.

[CheekyChops]

Rest breaks at work
A worker is entitled to an uninterrupted break of 20 minutes when daily working time is more than six hours. It should be a break in working time and should not be taken either at the start, or at the end, of a working day.

As your working day is 6 hours, you are not actually entitled to a break so your employer is within their rights to ask you to make the time up elsewhere.

Of course, this would then put yur working day on a Monday to over 6 hours and you would be entitled to a break as above. It doesn't have to be a paid break though.

[bednobs]

i think its six hours, so if you have a break in those six hurs, it is unpaid, as you have found out. Te only way to prevent you having to come in/make up the time is not to have the breaks

[Darlin]

I live in Tx and work a salaried position from 7:30 - at least 5:45 5days a week with a 30 min lunch and no breaks. Is that legal?