Quick maths question, please...

Kynthia

Do you have a contract that tells you how many hours you are paid for a week? Could your HR department assist you with your contracted hours or the impact on your salary?

SuzieSue

DUTR wrote: »

old wage/new wage

42.5/40=1.0625
therefore (1.0625-1)*100=6.25%
to prove 40+6.25% =42.5

that is the simplistic way,

Only if the lunch hour is paid.

meritaten

er if you work over 40 hours - isn't lunch paid time? as is your statutory breaks? aren't they 15 mins morning and afternoon? I meant half hour lunch break - if you take an hour then midmorning and afternoon breaks were unpaid (back in the days when I worked full time.

notanewuser

meritaten wrote: »

er if you work over 40 hours - isn't lunch paid time? as is your statutory breaks? aren't they 15 mins morning and afternoon? I meant half hour lunch break - if you take an hour then midmorning and afternoon breaks were unpaid (back in the days when I worked full time.

Not normally, no.

Only entitlement is to a 20 minute (unpaid) break if you're working more than 6 hours. That's it.

DUTR

SuzieSue wrote: »

Only if the lunch hour is paid.

It doesn't matter if the lunch hours are paid the hours worked or paid for are 40, at our place night shift get paid lunch breaks.

FatVonD

Thank you all, I'm usually good with maths but I had no idea where to start with working that one out!

I get paid an annual salary and I've never questioned whether my hourly rate is greater with an unpaid lunch hour or lesser and a paid lunch hour.

The reason I was asking is that I will soon have been here long enough to be eligible for a pay increase which, the way things are currently (redundancies and cutting everything to the bone to save money) I know there will be no chance of getting one so I was thinking of asking for a slightly shorter working day instead (without loss of pay) but I was hoping it might be equivalent to, say, a 3% wage increase but I think a 6% wage increase might be pushing it a bit!

Thanks again!

liney

Finishing an hour earlier, on say a Friday, would give you 2.4% I think.