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Breaks, lunch,etc

  • 15-05-2007 9:46pm
    #1
    tywy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,240 ✭✭✭


    I've just got a job for the summer, received the contract today.

    It says my weekly salary for 37.5hrs. I'll be working 8 hour shifts 5 days with 1/2 hr break. I thought you were supposed to get more than that...I'm new to this stuff, but I do think this is pretty poor.

    Thanks for any help you can give me.


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  • #2
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,055 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    That's perfectly legal and normal (unless you will be working in the retail trade as there are slightly different rules).

    Organisation of Working Time Act 1997

    12.—(1) An employer shall not require an employee to work for a period of more than 4 hours and 30 minutes without allowing him or her a break of at least 15 minutes.

    (2) An employer shall not require an employee to work for a period of more than 6 hours without allowing him or her a break of at least 30 minutes; such a break may include the break referred to in subsection (1).

    (3) The Minister may by regulations provide, as respects a specified class or classes of employee, that the minimum duration of the break to be allowed to such an employee under subsection (2) shall be more than 30 minutes (but not more than 1 hour).

    (4) A break allowed to an employee at the end of the working day shall not be regarded as satisfying the requirement contained in subsection (1) or (2).


  • #3
    Nala
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,959 ✭✭✭Nala


    i work in retail and i'd get an hour's break for an 8 hour shift.

    unless they kept u for 4.5 hours, u got half an hour, then u've only 3 hours when u come back? maybe they can do that?


  • #4
    leeroybrown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,563 ✭✭✭leeroybrown


    An eight hour shift including a 30 minute unpaid lunch break. That sounds fairly normal.


  • #5
    January
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,862 ✭✭✭✭January


    In my last job I done an eight hour shift (sometimes worked ten hour shifts with an extra ten minutes break) and got a paid half hour break.


  • #6
    tywy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,240 ✭✭✭tywy


    problem is I don't know the hourly rate just the weekly salary. it's a bit of a shít job really, working hard to find an alternative tbh.

    Thanks for the info!


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  • #7
    pow wow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,288 ✭✭✭pow wow


    Is it the CSO? I won't tell ;)


  • #8
    tywy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,240 ✭✭✭tywy


    oh no it's not the civil service.

    the civil service pay great :P


  • #9
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,055 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    tywy wrote:
    problem is I don't know the hourly rate just the weekly salary
    :confused: The hourly rate is irrelevant. The 'Act' does not differentiate between different hourly rates. An employee on €10 per hour is entitled to the same breaks as an employee on €100 per hour.


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