Help to understand new contract!

chonorla · 19 March 2011 at 6:29PM

Ok need a bit of help understanding my new contract please!
Started looking for a job about 6 weeks ago, 2 interviews later I have been offered a position which was stated as 22 hours.

The Manager phoned and offered me the job, stated the hours as 22 and said they would be spread over 3 days. Told me which days so I could arrange childcare (just for my youngest two, as only one and two years old - eldest is in high school).

Received the contract today which states it is 26 hours per week with 36 minutr unpaid lunch breaks??? Salary has increased with extra hours - now £12453 per annum.

So my questions are

36 minute lunch break? Is this right or a typing error? How on earth would that have been worked out if its right?

Secondly, am I right in assuming that I will be working 26 hours (am ok with the extra - helps with the childcare!) and the lunch breaks will be extra time on the day (ie not included in the 26 hours)? If that makes sense?

Thanks to anyone who can shed light on these!

C

Googlewhacker · 19 March 2011 at 6:41PM

I would check the lunch break but yes this is unpaid time which is added on to your paid hours.

Leela · 19 March 2011 at 7:01PM

Re: the lunch break I wonder if it is done as a percentage of an hour.

Full time staff where I work do 35 hours and have an hour for lunch. I work 30 hours and can have 51 minutes.

So:

30/35 x 60 = 51

chonorla · 19 March 2011 at 7:14PM

Thanks to both your replies - it seems a little clearer now!

That would make sense with the percentage of an hour.
But on the 26 hours stated it means I would be entitled to about 42 minutes,

26/37 x 60 = 42

Whereas on the 22 hour contract I thought I was doing, this would equal just under 36 minutes,

22/37 x 60 = 35.67

Thanks for that, I had no idea lunch breaks could be worked out like that!

So guess a phone call to the HR department just to clarify my hours is needed really.

Might alter the childcare hours needed.

Thanks x