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What is the legal tea break requirement.....
...in a factory? Looked on the ACAS website but can't find what i need to know :)
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3539843.stm there's your starter for 10
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Looking really for the amount of minutes required over a period of "x" hours :) |
Do a Google for "working time directive" ;)
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Originally Posted by Brun
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Looking really for the amount of minutes required over a period of "x" hours :) |
i think it's a 20 minute break thats the minimum if you work more than a 6 hr day providing theres nothing in your contract.
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Under the Working Time Regulations an employer is required to take all reasonable steps to ensure that workers do not work more than an average of 48 hours a week over a 17-week period. However, individual workers may choose to agree to work more than the 48-hour average weekly limit. If they do so, the agreement must be in writing and must allow the worker to bring the agreement to an end. A worker is also entitled to a rest period of 11 consecutive hours between each working day; to an uninterrupted rest period of not less than 24 hours in each seven-day period and to an uninterrupted break of 20 minutes when daily working time is more than six hours. Young workers, those between 16-17, are subject to different rules.
- http://www.acas.org.uk/index.aspx?articleid=817 |
Note that is for a lunch break - you have no legal entitlement to any further breaks unless the work is so stressful or hard that working without such extra breaks would damage your health (general Duty of Care that all employers have). This would have to be agued in a court/tribunal.
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If the job involves the use of computers it may also be worth considering the 1992 Display Screen Equipment health & safety regulations, which states...
Originally Posted by Daily work routine of users
4. Every employer shall so plan the activities of users at work in his undertaking that their daily work on display screen equipment is periodically interrupted by such breaks or changes of activity as reduce their workload at that equipment.
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Tea break ?? I haven't had a feckin lunch break for over 10 years !!
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The lads in our factory were moaning that their breaks were too short. In their 8 hour shift they get two 15 minute breaks and a 30 minute lunch (all paid) I just wanted the official line so i could show them they get a pretty good deal. I didn't realise the official line was that crap though :eek: Cheers guys :) |
Originally Posted by judgejules
Under the Working Time Regulations an employer is required to take all reasonable steps to ensure that workers do not work more than an average of 48 hours a week over a 17-week period. However, individual workers may choose to agree to work more than the 48-hour average weekly limit. If they do so, the agreement must be in writing and must allow the worker to bring the agreement to an end. A worker is also entitled to a rest period of 11 consecutive hours between each working day; to an uninterrupted rest period of not less than 24 hours in each seven-day period and to an uninterrupted break of 20 minutes when daily working time is more than six hours. Young workers, those between 16-17, are subject to different rules.
- http://www.acas.org.uk/index.aspx?articleid=817 Week 1 Mon-Fri 0500-1300 Sat&Sun 0500-1700 Week 2 Mon-Fri 1300-2100 Sat&Sun Off Week 3 Mon-Fri 2100-0500 Sat&Sun 1700-0500 Week 4 Off Week 5 Off Then the cycle starts back again at week 1. However when I finish work at 1700hrs Sunday on week 1, im back at work on Monday week 2 at 1300Hrs. Its this ok? |
Reading that paragraph the answer is no :)
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if i recall i saw the same at work this week, the get out caveat, the employer has the duty to offer 11hr breaks between periods of work, however its not down to them to monitor it or ensure that the employee takes the time...
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Originally Posted by Brun
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The lads in our factory were moaning that their breaks were too short. In their 8 hour shift they get two 15 minute breaks and a 30 minute lunch (all paid) I just wanted the official line so i could show them they get a pretty good deal. I didn't realise the official line was that crap though :eek: Cheers guys :) Tell them to count themselves lucky. Working for a family business my hours are: 8a.m to 5p.m - No breaks, No lunch breaks, just straight through. I've been here 10 years without a day off even when feeling like crap. So tell them to stop moaning or they could come and work for me, i'm a printer BTW. I thought doing school hours stopped at 16! bloody lunch break! get back to work:lol1: Rob |
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Originally Posted by scott8629
As I work shifts
Week 1 Mon-Fri 0500-1300 Sat&Sun 0500-1700 Week 2 Mon-Fri 1300-2100 Sat&Sun Off Week 3 Mon-Fri 2100-0500 Sat&Sun 1700-0500 Week 4 Off Week 5 Off Then the cycle starts back again at week 1. However when I finish work at 1700hrs Sunday on week 1, im back at work on Monday week 2 at 1300Hrs. Its this ok? John. |
Originally Posted by robertdon777
I thought doing school hours stopped at 16! bloody lunch break! get back to work:lol1:
Rob Ha ha Nope I am 26 and work in a school. Get to work at 8am have tea till 8.30am Tea break 10.15 - 10.45 Lunch 12.30 - 1.30 Teabreak 3.30 - 3.50 The go home at 4.00 I am not sure if the breaks get in the way of work or if the work gets in the way of the breaks... |
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