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Quick Question RE Work Lunch and Pay question

  • 22-01-2008 11:06pm
    #1
    Lamps
    Closed Accounts Posts: 205 ✭✭


    Whats the story with this, I have to work 7 hours a day (anymore and its overtime) and take a minimun of 1/2 lunch, do i get paid for the 1/2 lunch under the law?

    I work 9-5 Monday to Friday


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  • #2
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,038 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    Lamps wrote: »
    Whats the story with this, I have to work 7 hours a day (anymore and its overtime) and take a minimun of 1/2 lunch, do i get paid for the 1/2 lunch under the law?

    I work 9-5 Monday to Friday
    There is no obligation for your employer to pay you during your lunch break.


  • #3
    gary the great
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,665 ✭✭✭gary the great


    I always thought you got paid a half hour for every 8 hours work or something like that!?


  • #4
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    No. You're entitled to a break, but you're not entitled to get paid for that break.
    http://www.citizensinformation.ie/categories/employment/employment-rights-and-conditions/hours-of-work/hours_breaks_sundays


  • #5
    ixoy
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 18,003 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    Does anyone get paid for lunch? I've never heard of that and don't see why an employer would.


  • #6
    Tails142
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,119 ✭✭✭Tails142


    I have got paid before on part time jobs while on lunch - we also got to expense the lunch if we were outside dublin

    other jobs I had to clock out


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  • #7
    dudara
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,518 ✭✭✭✭dudara


    Anytime where I was paid by the hour, I used to clock off for lunch (though I didn't we didn't do so when working on the assembly line for Apple in Cork). When temping, lunch time was always unpaid.


  • #8
    Z
    Closed Accounts Posts: 119 ✭✭Z


    ixoy wrote: »
    Does anyone get paid for lunch? I've never heard of that and don't see why an employer would.

    to keep employees happy.
    I get paid for lunch.


  • #9
    ixoy
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 18,003 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    Z wrote: »
    to keep employees happy.
    I get paid for lunch.
    May I ask what line of work you're in? I've not heard of it in IT anyway. People clock out, etc during lunch.


  • #10
    Z
    Closed Accounts Posts: 119 ✭✭Z


    Im in IT. I've worked for IBM, contract with an RBS merchant bank subsidiary, for a large educational institution on contract, for ulster bank on contract and also for my current place of employment which I won't mention.

    None of which used a clock in card system, and all of which pay lunch.


  • #11
    JackieChan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,829 ✭✭✭JackieChan


    Z,
    Were your contracts, priced per hour or per day?
    If they were per day then the daily rate is a factor of the number of hours worked.
    If per hour, can you pm with the line of work your in....I need to get in there!!


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