breaks

[Barbel]

working for five and a half hours without a break is really bad its making me ill. the full timers get a break inbetween . beside the fact im only getting 20 minutes break and i should get 30 minutes . I feel tottaly lied to and abused.

I cant cope any more

May I ask in what way it is making you ill? I can't say by not having a break is making me feel ill, hunger & thirst yes but I always make sure I take a snack and drink with me to top up on the way round. Besides the point I know as we should be getting breaks. The killer for me is the sun beaming down on me for 4 hours without a break.

[Sidley]

Ha ha yes true but then you risk a bollocking when you get back to the office. Not so bad if you've been there donkeys years and are on a permanent contract, but when you're only on 3 month rolling contracts and you've been there less than a year you feel the pressure big time.

And will for as long as you capitulate unfortunately. Rock and a hard place spring to mind.
Get on to your rep.

[TrueBlueTerrier]

working for five and a half hours without a break is really bad its making me ill. the full timers get a break inbetween . beside the fact im only getting 20 minutes break and i should get 30 minutes . I feel tottaly lied to and abused.

I cant cope any more

May I ask in what way it is making you ill? I can't say by not having a break is making me feel ill, hunger & thirst yes but I always make sure I take a snack and drink with me to top up on the way round. Besides the point I know as we should be getting breaks. The killer for me is the sun beaming down on me for 4 hours without a break.

Diabetes, any number of medical conditions

[post_bitch]

I hope this video helps in your fight against them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzpWT66Km8E" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
good luck my son

[arthur was right]

Just read through the posts on here and one person has said they have worked for royal mail for 8 months and have never had a break cos the mail wouldn't get delivered!!!
I am absolutely astounded by this!!!! Its like working for some kind of tinpot company in the 3rd world FFS cwu WHERE ARE YOU.... what a really crap company!!!!
you should all hang your heads in shame for doin nowt

[post_bitch]

So royal mails own terms and conditions of contract say we are allowed a break..
But this means they can themselves dictate for you to be forced to take it at the end of the duty because you have no legal rights,,
because legally a part timer is not entitled to a break if they work less than 6 hours per day.
sorry OP u will just need to suffer

[fishtank]

2.I start at 9 and finish at 2 but the manager said i cant take a break in the middle only at the end i could really do with a break in the middle because i get hungry and exhausted.

The Way Forward Agreement holds the field on Attendance Breaks.
http://www.cwu.org/assets/_files/docume ... eement.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

It states in Section 5:Meal Breaks that you cannot schedule a single break at the beginning or end of attendance.

Breaks at the beginning or end of attendance

Where an attendance is provided with more than one break, the second break may be scheduled at the beginning or end, in which case attendance is not required solely for booking on or off. A single break should not be scheduled at the beginning or end of the attendance

[post_bitch]

So in a nutshell his manager is willingly breaking breaks code of procedures set out in the contract between the cwu and rm which is set standards within the company for health and safety reasons.After asking his manager and being told me must and has no choice to take his break at the end. And if it has made him ill then he will succeed if he decides to resign and go down the constructive dismissal route due to his job being made deliberately impossible. While the CWU rep stood by and allowed it.

I dont know who is worse the CWU or his manager

[post_bitch]

[TrueBlueTerrier]

So in a nutshell his manager is willingly breaking breaks code of procedures set out in the contract between the cwu and rm which is set standards within the company for health and safety reasons.After asking his manager and being told me must and has no choice to take his break at the end. And if it has made him ill then he will succeed if he decides to resign and go down the constructive dismissal route due to his job being made deliberately impossible. While the CWU rep stood by and allowed it.

I dont know who is worse the CWU or his manager

You forgot the government and politicians who set the laws and the colleagues who aren't helping the OP. More than 1 cook spoilt this broth.

[post_bitch]

But why would the cwu stand by and let them get away with it . until now. knowing its against the rules of the agreement?

[TrueBlueTerrier]

But why would the cwu stand by and let them get away with it . until now. knowing its against the rules of the agreement?

You'd have to ask the reps and the office. I am 99% certain it wouldn't happen here.

[post_bitch]

Is that right... When do the part timers in your office take breaks then?

[TrueBlueTerrier]

Is that right... When do the part timers in your office take breaks then?

Thats not the point of the thread, the point is that they wouldn't be forced to take it at the end like this manager is trying to.

However, in the spirit of full disclosure about 10% take it before they go out, about 20% take it out on delivery (to split it up) but most at the end, despite being warned not to, and they are not forced to do so thats the difference.

[post_bitch]

Now im going to really test you. Why would a manager force a part timer to take his break at the end knowings its against the agreement ? Whats in it for them