Lunch Breaks

Undervalued

ohreally wrote: »

This isn't permitted...

It is if they work no more than six hours a day

General_Grant

The question involved "anything untoward happening".
What sort of job does the OP hold? Driving?

lincroft1710

"There's a 5 minute break and that's all you take for a cup of cold coffee and a piece of cake"

Matthew and Son - Cat Stevens

theoretica

You can sign all the disclaimers you want - but neither you, nor a disclaimer, can force your employer to let you be paid for working through your lunch breack.

agrinnall

suemacd22 wrote: »

Everyone has worked 9-4 for years, working through lunch. My boss wants us now to take an hour's lunch as she's now worried that someone could have an accident on the way home and hold the company responsible.

Are you sure that's the real reason? I would suspect that your boss has realised that the office is empty after 4 pm and would like people to be there until 5pm in order for there to be 14% more productive time each day.

TELLIT01

The staff in question here are working more than 6 hours a day, but the information in the link is ambiguous. It states that staff are entitled to a 20 minute break if working over 6 hours but doesn't say they have to take it. It later says that the management can decide when the break is taken but it can't be at the beginning or end of the day.
If the management decrees that the staff must take a break then the staff must take it, or at least can't finish early because they chose not to.
I wonder if there has been an incident where there could have been a H&S issue and management have now decided to play safe.