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How many hours in a working day?

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luddite
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How many hours in a working day?

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If you were put on a morning walk and a afternoon collection how many hours in total would you be expected to work in one day? How much time between shifts is allowed? If, say you did a 7 hour delivery then a 4 hour collection run with 2 hour break between, total day 13 hours, working day 11 hours, acceptable?
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Re: How many hours in a working day?

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As long as you are able to take the appropriate rest breaks during your shift and between working days then yes it is acceptable.

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Re: How many hours in a working day?

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luddite wrote:If you were put on a morning walk and a afternoon collection how many hours in total would you be expected to work in one day? How much time between shifts is allowed? If, say you did a 7 hour delivery then a 4 hour collection run with 2 hour break between, total day 13 hours, working day 11 hours, acceptable?
13 hr days are acceptable
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legal I think is the better choice. Acceptable would indicate a personal or political choice dependent on if your were the one doing or the one telling.

I personally would not accept a contract that basically means in a 5 day week you'd be at work, or getting ready for it 65 hours a week. You would be working/sleeping/working/sleeping - no work life balance not a choice I would make.
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Re: How many hours in a working day?

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TrueBlueTerrier wrote:legal I think is the better choice. Acceptable would indicate a personal or political choice dependent on if your were the one doing or the one telling.

I personally would not accept a contract that basically means in a 5 day week you'd be at work, or getting ready for it 65 hours a week. You would be working/sleeping/working/sleeping - no work life balance not a choice I would make.
it would not necesarilly be a 65 hr week
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Re: How many hours in a working day?

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you work 8 hours a day normal time. u said u dun a 7 hour delivery so with tea break that makes 7hrs 40 mins . your afternoon is overtime ob without the 20 mins u owe them which im sure u give them and do make sure u give them the 20 mins. sum dims are a bit picky over that
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luddite
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Re: How many hours in a working day?

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blackadder wrote:you work 8 hours a day normal time. u said u dun a 7 hour delivery so with tea break that makes 7hrs 40 mins . your afternoon is overtime ob without the 20 mins u owe them which im sure u give them and do make sure u give them the 20 mins. sum dims are a bit picky over that
Not me, one of our PT staff asked to do this shift, overall hours that week no more than 35 hrs. We just thought it was a long day that's all, :arrrghhh