Work and Hours

MrTom1

Just a quick question, i work from say 8 am to 430pm with 1 hour lunch, we are required to come in a half early so that means am in the work place for 8 and half hours which includes 1 hour lunch??? That seem correct

davo10

MrTom1 wrote: »

Just a quick question, i work from say 8 am to 430pm with 1 hour lunch, we are required to come in a half early so that means am in the work place for 8 and half hours which includes 1 hour lunch??? That seem correct

You do not get paid for your lunch hour, so seven and a half hours. Some companies require employees to be at their stations when work commences so they request that you arrive before that a prepare to begin your working day at 8am, not walk through the door at 8am.

MrTom1

yep i know i dont get paid for my lunch hour which is grand but with any other company it was always 9-5 or 12-8 including breaks etc just wondering why i have to start a half hour before work

Stheno

MrTom1 wrote: »

yep i know i dont get paid for my lunch hour which is grand but with any other company it was always 9-5 or 12-8 including breaks etc just wondering why i have to start a half hour before work

Cos those are the hours the company have put down for you to work?

jimmycrackcorm

MrTom1 wrote:

yep i know i dont get paid for my lunch hour which is grand but with any other company it was always 9-5 or 12-8 including breaks etc just wondering why i have to start a half hour before work

What breaks are you talking about. 9 - 5:30 with an hour off at lunch is normal. You seem to be implying a 35 hr work week is the norm?

Stheno

jimmycrackcorm wrote: »

What breaks are you talking about. 9 - 5:30 with an hour off at lunch is normal. You seem to be implying a 35 hr work week is the norm?

I think OP thinks everyone works 9-5 and is now wondering why they are working their new hours.

9-5 to me is a very generic term, to indicate someone who works office hours which can be anything from 8-6 in a lot of organistions, with some people starting at 8 and finishing at 4/4:30 and then starting later and finishing later.

He seems to think that starting before 9 is unusual

Or it could be that he is working 8:30 - 4 with a one hour lunch, which is a 37.5 hour week, but is being asked to be in by eight, but that's unclear.

MrTom1

What am saying is a normal working shift is 8-4 or 9-5 or 12-8 in any job I've worked before , usually two 15 min breaks and a half hour for lunch . Where am working now it's 8-430 or 9-530 or 1130-8pm with 1 hour lunch . So what am asking isn't if I have to come in early to be at the desk before work starts etc etc , it's how do they add a half an hour onto the shift ?

Stheno

MrTom1 wrote: »

What am saying is a normal working shift is 8-4 or 9-5 or 12-8 in any job I've worked before , usually two 15 min breaks and a half hour for lunch . Where am working now it's 8-430 or 9-530 or 1130-8pm with 1 hour lunch . So what am asking isn't if I have to come in early to be at the desk before work starts etc etc , it's how do they add a half an hour onto the shift ?

A normal working week legally is up to a total of 48 hours, so over a five day week that's 9.6 hours so including unpaid breaks that could be 10.6 hours, so rounding that down to 10.5 hours, that could be 9am - 7:30. 8am - 6:30

Most places do an eight or nine hour day including lunch.

All your employer is doing is having an 8.5 hour day including lunch which is a 7.5 hours working day, this is perfectly normal

Just because it's different from other jobs doesn't mean it's wrong/illegal.
Working from 8-4:30 with an hour for lunch is perfectly normal and legal, nothing wrong here.

It's just different from your expection.

One job I had, my hours were 8am - 5:30 pm with an hour for lunch, so 42.5 hours a week, which is also fine.

Mrs OBumble

The only way it can be wrong is if

1) Your total paid hours per week, on average, is more than 48, or
2) Your before-tax pay divided by total paid hours is less than the minimum wage for your age-X-work-experince-since-18.

There is no minimum or maximum work hours per day: in some industries, a 12-hour shift is routine. In others, 4 hours is the basic shift length.

MrTom1

cool lads explains it now , thanks for help

Whereisgalway

im working 18.00 to 22.30. its 4 n half hours, am i entitled to a 15min break?

PeteK*

Is the company allowed ask that their staff be at work 30 minutes early and not pay them for those 30 minutes?

Whereisgalway wrote: »

im working 18.00 to 22.30. its 4 n half hours, am i entitled to a 15min break?

No.

off.the.walls

I work 8:30 - 5:30 with an hour for lunch! so thats an 8 hour day with an hour for lunch. So in total 9 hours of my day are gone! + the 2 hours it takes to get in + out of town so thats 11 hours really. so 55 hours a week with a 45 hour working week.

robbip

My boss is changing our work hours on a Saturday. Which will be an extra half hour. Does anybody know if that is legal or do they have to give us a new contract to sign because they are changing our working terms!