Exploitation and no lunch hour.

saintjammyswine

If you are doing 5 hours then you are not legally entitled to a break at all, sorry. Do you need to eat for a medical reason (diabetes for example)?

Martynb_

saintjammyswine wrote: »

If you are doing 5 hours then you are not legally entitled to a break at all, sorry. Do you need to eat for a medical reason (diabetes for example)?

I could do a full 9-5 today and still not got a break.

I have to watch my blood sugars, they can get low. I don't have diabetes.

ILW

Martynb_ wrote: »

I could do a full 9-5 today and still not got a break.

I have to watch my blood sugars, they can get low. I don't have diabetes.

You are coming over as a little precious, maybe that is the cause of some of the ribbing.

scheming_gypsy

Jarndyce wrote: »

So do you condone sexual harassment at work?

banter and sexual inuendo's isn't always sexual harassment. It just sounds like it's not that bad a place to work

LadyMissA

Martynb_ wrote: »

No. I'm the bloke. They are the women.

sorry I meant IF it was a group of blokes and the new person was a girl

liney

Martynb_ wrote: »

I could do a full 9-5 today and still not got a break.

I have to watch my blood sugars, they can get low. I don't have diabetes.

But you didn't do 9am - 5pm, you worked only 5 hours, and are therefore not entitled to a break... unless you are aged 16 to 18?

For someone who had worked only 5 hours for 1 day you know an awful lot about the in's and out's of other people's working day!

Read this http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Employment/Employees/WorkingHoursAndTimeOff/DG_10029451

If your daily 5 hours if over lunch time, then why not ask if you can have 15 mins unpaid to eat a sandwich and stay 15 mins longer. However, if you ar working say 8 - 1 or 9 -2, then really you can eat at the end of the shift.

jess1974

Martynb_ wrote: »

They do it with everyone and each other. Really annoying sometimes. I just don't share their sense of humour. I did 5 hours today, but no-one no matter what hours they do gets a break. If I am planing on working there 9-5 I'm going to need food to keep me going. 5 hours and blood sugars started to drop, and I couldn't finish lifting over a hundred heavy metal shelves up two flights of stairs...on my own.

My husband is the same, he needs food at lunchtime as he does a physical job and is burning off a lot of calories, he has a sandwich, cake, fruit etc, i don't think some of you are being fair to the op, a physical job is hard enough but even more if you have to go from 9-5 without anything to keep you going......

saintjammyswine

Martynb_ wrote: »

I could do a full 9-5 today and still not got a break.

I have to watch my blood sugars, they can get low. I don't have diabetes.

Then perhaps a sweet tea and buttered toast with jam will provide as many sugars as you will need for a 5 hour shift?

Martynb_

liney wrote: »

But you didn't do 9am - 5pm, you worked only 5 hours, and are therefore not entitled to a break... unless you are aged 16 to 18?

For someone who had worked only 5 hours for 1 day you know an awful lot about the in's and out's of other people's working day!

Read this http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Employment/Employees/WorkingHoursAndTimeOff/DG_10029451

If your daily 5 hours if over lunch time, then why not ask if you can have 15 mins unpaid to eat a sandwich and stay 15 mins longer. However, if you ar working say 8 - 1 or 9 -2, then really you can eat at the end of the shift.

I know I didn't do a 9-5. But if I did, I still would not get a break. No-one in that place gets a break. And I need to eat or I get ill. You depress me.:(

saintjammyswine

jess1974 wrote: »

My husband is the same, he needs food at lunchtime as he does a physical job and is burning off a lot of calories, he has a sandwich, cake, fruit etc, i don't think some of you are being fair to the op, a physical job is hard enough but even more if you have to go from 9-5 without anything to keep you going......

But OP has only done 5 hours and has had to carry some shelves upstairs. Not exactly working on an oil rig I am sure. The 9-5 is purely hypothetical at this point.