tea breaks

[Thunderthighs]

Each time I've gone in early recently, just killing time BEFORE My start time, having a quiet coffee...someone's come in and said, "When you start you can..."

Think I'll sit in my car til 10 secs b4 my start time from now on.

[UnhappyGremlin]

Each time I've gone in early recently, just killing time BEFORE My start time, having a quiet coffee...someone's come in and said, "When you start you can..."

Think I'll sit in my car til 10 secs b4 my start time from now on.

I've had managers try to talk to me during my break about a problem or to give me instructions for after. I just told them I'm on my break and if you need to speak to me see me after.

[demon]

we been on park and loop 3 years now and its still not working .but all i an say is make sure you take your break

[gosickwithstress]

Bordon Delivery office hampshire

We have just been told we must have our full break before we go out on our duties.
But considering we have just had our revision and 2 people our now doing 2 full duties
by van sharing, which looks to me as these rounds will take anywhere from 4.5hrs to 5hrs on
heavy days. Surely we should not be having our full breaks before we go out. I thought that
under working law practices we should have a 15 min break each 4.15 hrs worked. Specially
considering being outside doing physical work in adverse weather. This is surely against the law.
I thought It would be better to have 20mins before we go out then 20mins later on etc (or 30 then 10min)
Is there any CWU agreement, or national agreement on breaks, How do breaks work your office
please let me know. Also im on 35 hours a week which should mean I a 35 minute break as
pro rata, But my boss is only allowing 30 mins for 35 hours (There having 25mins a week of my time, which
adds up over the year), they must be wrong.

[TrueBlueTerrier]

Breaks (Meal reliefs) are not based on hours contracted per week, but by hours per day therefore base your 20/30/40 breaks on this from the Way Forward Agreement



I have heard mention of this so many breaks in so many hours of work, However the only statutory break I have come across is 20 minutes if you are expected to work 6 hours or more and it can be paid or unpaid. Although there are different rules for "young Workers" which I take to mean under 18s, and 11 consecutive hours in any 24 hour period.

These are all posted at http://www.hse.gov.uk/contact/faqs/workingtime.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

if anyone does have more information and links to official sites, I'd be most grateful if they could post them, I am not going to give RM anything extra at the moment.