Break entitlements

[Kerry]

If I work a 8 hour day 9-5 what breaks am I entitled to ?
I have been told that you get 15mins morning break and then 30 mins for lunch, the lunch break is unpaid, so we get paid for a 7half hour day.

[ubasses]

For a working day over 6 hours you should have an uninterrupted break of a minmum 20 minutes.

[ABerrant]

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

[DrFilth]

al the shift workers at my old place did redhelen

[Kerry]

Thanks.

[Maydup]

Unpaid lunchbreaks with paid tea breaks is the norm.

Minimum 20 mins break in 6hours is the law, but in practice, 30 - 60 minute breaks are encouraged and deducted from the pay.

[dotty.]

needs of the business dictate whether you get to take the paid break though but

[DrFilth]

just pointing out redhelen that some firms do pay for meal breaks

[DrFilth]

>> But to be honest if I said it was white Dr Filth you would have said it was black <<

don't understand that

[gina32]

i do 12 hours and 15 minutes shift and do not get paid for any of my breaks!

[ojread2]

Gina, if you work a 12 hour shift you must have, by law, at least 20 minutes break

[ABerrant]

gina32 did not say she had less than the minimum break time for working 12 and a quarter hours, only that the breaks were unpaid.

[gina32]

ab, thank you