Meal relief

Post by **Warriorpostie** » 04 Apr 2018, 18:37

Going on the basis that meal relief is calculated at 5 minutes per each hour worked, then 20 minutes should only be taken after 4 hours of work.

Bahia Feliz · Post by **Bahia Feliz** » 04 Apr 2018, 18:54

clashcityrocker wrote:
If your break was scheduled as 20 minutes at 8.30, then your break is 20 minutes at 8.30.
You cannot just take it as and when you feel like it.

How and why can a break be 'scheduled' for 8.30? If you start at 6.30 and finish at 14.30 or later why should you have to have a break at 8.30?

Creditshampoo · Post by **Creditshampoo** » 04 Apr 2018, 18:56

Bahia Feliz wrote:
clashcityrocker wrote:
If your break was scheduled as 20 minutes at 8.30, then your break is 20 minutes at 8.30.
You cannot just take it as and when you feel like it.
How and why can a break be 'scheduled' for 8.30? If you start at 6.30 and finish at 14.30 or later why should you have to have a break at 8.30?

So you can chill out a bit

k979aaa · Post by **k979aaa** » 04 Apr 2018, 19:01

It's your meal relief not her's does she take her's at the same time ? is it equidistant ie in the middle if not take it near the middle and if you need to go to the toilet go back to the office who do these people think we are!

wookie · Post by **wookie** » 04 Apr 2018, 19:03

eastie wrote:some postmen in my Delivery Office drive back to the office to take their full 40 minute break in our canteen rather than in the van.

Bahia Feliz · Post by **Bahia Feliz** » 04 Apr 2018, 20:31

Creditshampoo wrote:
Bahia Feliz wrote:
clashcityrocker wrote:
If your break was scheduled as 20 minutes at 8.30, then your break is 20 minutes at 8.30.
You cannot just take it as and when you feel like it.
How and why can a break be 'scheduled' for 8.30? If you start at 6.30 and finish at 14.30 or later why should you have to have a break at 8.30?
So you can chill out a bit

I want and have my break halfway through my working day,Not after 2 hours.

Postie45 · Post by **Postie45** » 05 Apr 2018, 12:06

Warriorpostie wrote:Going on the basis that meal relief is calculated at 5 minutes per each hour worked, then 20 minutes should only be taken after 4 hours of work.

and the other 20 minutes when youve finished ?

danterossetti · Post by **danterossetti** » 05 Apr 2018, 16:40

Take both breaks.

crimson king · Post by **crimson king** » 05 Apr 2018, 18:38

The other week I was put with a full timer who didn't want me to help tie up as he did it different to the frame and he "didn't want to waste time explaining it when I could just get on and do it"....which was fair enough. He then told me to have my break while he tied up and I just burst out laughing, "a break from what? I've literally only just gone on the clock."

Then we went out on the duty and never stopped for a break once. It's chaotic anarchy.

cpsteve · Post by **cpsteve** » 05 Apr 2018, 20:33

awesomepenguin wrote:
Harri74 wrote:
clashcityrocker wrote:
Harri74 wrote:Ha, yeah, good thinking! Thanks for replying. As a previous Union rep I cannot remember any Nat Agreement that said you have to take them either separately or at specific times.
Your meal relief should have been scheduled as part of your revision process.
Your office should have voted on the duration/split.
The Working Time Directive states that an employer can tell the employees when to take their break - it should be somewhere in the middle (very vague) but cannot be at the start or the end of the duty.

If your break was scheduled as 20 minutes at 8.30, then your break is 20 minutes at 8.30.
You cannot just take it as and when you feel like it.
You sound quite confident about this. Another example of Royal Mail inflexibility. Part Timers start at 7:45 are told to take their meal relief at 8:30. Nice one Royal Mail :
Nice one CWU for agreeing to the whole shambolic farce that is the meal relief/break situation in Royal Mail.

Yes paid breaks dirty B#########