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  • 02-04-2014 1:50pm
    #1
    dar100
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,735 ✭✭✭


    Hi,

    Does this sound correct. I have to work a 39 hour week, with a mandatory 30 minute break, which doesn't come out of the 39 hours, in other words on my own time


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  • #2
    Garball
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 84 ✭✭Garball


    sounds about right. Ive to clock out when going on my half hour lunch. We get 15 minutes in the morning which we don't clock out for.


  • #3
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,690 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    Yes that sounds right, you are not entitled to be paid for your lunch break.


  • #4
    Mrs OBumble
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,295 ✭✭✭✭Mrs OBumble


    What on earth could possibly be incorrect about it? Sorry, but I'm truly baffled by what problems you could be seeing here ...


  • #5
    phill106
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,826 ✭✭✭phill106


    Mrs OBumble wrote: »
    What on earth could possibly be incorrect about it? Sorry, but I'm truly baffled by what problems you could be seeing here ...

    OP may not have worked before, its a legitimate question


  • #6
    dar100
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,735 ✭✭✭dar100


    Mrs OBumble wrote: »
    What on earth could possibly be incorrect about it? Sorry, but I'm truly baffled by what problems you could be seeing here ...

    Whats wrong with it, is in previous jobs, it has always came out of the 39 hours


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  • #7
    Eoin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,263 ✭✭✭✭Eoin


    So the new place is making you work more hours basically, which is allowed. They must allow you to take a 30 minute break, you do not have to be paid for it.

    If it came out of the 39 hours in previous jobs, then it was really a 36.5 hour week.


  • #8
    rainbowdrop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,294 ✭✭✭rainbowdrop


    dar100 wrote: »
    Whats wrong with it, is in previous jobs, it has always came out of the 39 hours

    Previous job I was in (in the boom), I did a 39hr week with a paid half hr lunch break, and 2 paid 15min breaks.

    In the job I have now, I work 41.5hrs a week. The extra 2.5hrs are for my unpaid half hr lunchbreaks. Only get a 10min paid break per day.

    It's all down to the recession, companies cutting the wages bill by not paying employee's when they are sitting on their ass in the canteen, and increased productivity due to shorter breaks. I earn €100 less per week in my current job, yet work more hours than my previous one.

    No laws being broken here OP. If you want the job in the current climate, you just gotta suck it up......


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