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redwillowrose · Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 11:27 pm Post subject: my boss !!

my boss told us today that we are only allowed to have a 30 min lunch break, we usually have an hour ! I think she`d be happy if we said we wouldn`t bother to have one at all.
we were all on our way home tonight, and she phoned to ask us to go to clean a house that she`d inspected and found that some other cleaners had hardly cleaned it at all , it took us 2 hours , and we didn`t get home till 6.30.as we are picked up at 8 in the morning it made it a very long day, especially with only a 30 min break.
I cant wait to get another job !
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Libby · Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 9:32 am Post subject:

Thats awful. Isn't there a law about breaks you have to have 15 mins for every so many hours worked??
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redwillowrose · Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 9:10 pm Post subject:

I`ll try to find out, but I think she has her own laws !
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lloyd · 5 Star Club Joined: 17 Jun 2006 Posts: 3315

The legal minimum requirement is 30 minutes unpaid.
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redwillowrose · Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 10:39 pm Post subject:

It wouldn`t be so bad if she had told everyone else, but she hasn`t , most of them are still having an hour ! today we didn`t get our break until 1.30, and we are cleaning without a break from 9 am,
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lloyd · 5 Star Club Joined: 17 Jun 2006 Posts: 3315

Constructive dismissal perhaps?................................. Wink

redwillowrose · Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 7:43 am Post subject:

watch this space ......................... Very Happy

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Kathy · Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 9:51 am Post subject:

http://www.hse.gov.uk/contact/faqs/workingtime.htm

This tells you the minimum entitlement, 20 mns for 6 hrs not taken at the beginning or the end of a shift. Your lunch break entitlement should be in your employee contract and whether it's a paid break or not. What's in your contract for lunch is your legal entitlement and different companies have different allowances.

Hope this helps. Smile