Hazza
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Minimum 30 mins, Max 1 hour. |
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Smiler
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Check your contract.
Working time directive says a 20 minute break every 6 hours. |
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gavinwhyman
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As the first poster stated the working time directive gives us 20 Min's per 6 hours worked. But the employer doesn't need to pay you during your breaks so worth double checking that too. |
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pleonna
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The regulations give you a right to one rest break during your working day. A lunch or coffee break can count as your rest break. Additional breaks might be given by your contract of employment. There's no statutory right to 'smoking breaks'.
If you're an adult worker (ie over 18), you'll normally have the right to a 20 minute rest break if you're expected to work for more than six hours at a stretch |
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cuddles_gb
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You should have checked this out on the first day you started. With a half-hour lunch break, you will work 7.5 hours a day, making 37.5 a week - pretty generous hours actually. It's unlikely for a 9-to-5 it'd be 1 hour - that's more normal on 9 to 5.30 jobs.
We work here from 8 to 4.30 (3.30 on Fridays), with half-hour lunch - that's a 39 hour week, more typical in my industry. |
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Steve-Bob
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If you work for over 6 hours, you are entitled to a 20 minute break. Anything other than that depends on what your contract says. I can't find a webpage currently, sorry. |
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hully genius
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Me the same, It's all perfectly legal, depends on how many hours your contracted to! 37 a week like me means you can have your 30 min lunch and still get of home at 5, if you had an hour you would be there till 5:30 so look on the bright side!! |
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scallywag
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I think 30 mins is the minimum but you can contact ACAS to find out your positiond legally - their services to you should be free. |
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Martin14th
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the working time directive says you must have 20 mins break, after 6 hours of work.
http://www.tuc.org.uk/law/tuc-12352-f0.cfm |
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b97st
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I can have as long as I like. Minimum, 15 mins, maximum 1 hour. I usually take half an hour. |
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bullatpool
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whats a lunch break? |
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danika1066
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I worked from 8 to 5 at a former job, and we only got 45 minutes! Oh, except for the boss, his wife, and his kids (they all worked there!). They were entitled to much longer lunch breaks. But I always thought 45 minutes for that many hours was crappy. |
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awommack
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3o min |
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VeronicaB
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well, i have done some searching, hope i found the answer...
quote:
Federal law does not require lunch or coffee breaks. However, when employers do offer short breaks (usually lasting about 5 to 20 minutes), federal law considers the breaks work-time that must be paid. Unauthorized extensions of authorized work breaks need not be counted as hours worked when the employer has expressly and unambiguously communicated to the employee that the authorized break may only last for a specific length of time, that any extension of the break is contrary to the employer's rules, and any extension of the break will be punished.
Bona fide meal periods (typically lasting at least 30 minutes), serve a different purpose than coffee or snack breaks and, thus, are not work time and are not compensable.
ps: would have been nice to know where you live, because in the UK its the other way around, there you are intitled to have a lunch break... hope i guessed it well... good day:) |
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bubbles26
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30 min lunch is what you are entitled too. Hour lunch is not a LAW. |
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loopu lou
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You should get an hours break a day, but that could be half hour lunch with two 15 minutes break, or the whole hour, The uk law is you should not work any longer than four hours without a break. |
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ellehcim
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its legally 30 minutes for an eight hour job and you get free 10 or 15 minute coffee break if ur employer would allow you to...mine does... |
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Mr Glenn
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It will vary according to your job.....I get 55 mins cos that's how long lunch lasts in the school I work in. |
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