Reduced Work Week and Compressed Work Week are a (relatively) new concept that some Annualised Hours Contract workplaces are doing
Reduced: You work 4 days of 7.5 hours, adding up to 30 hours weekly, you get paid the same as if you worked 5 days of 7.5 hours (37.5 hours)
Compressed: You work 4 days of 9.5 hours, adding up to 37.5 hours weekly, you get paid the same as if you worked 5 days of 7.5 hours (37.5 hours)
I wish my job would do this but not only do they refuse, we don’t even do the 7.5 x5 we do 8.75 x5 and 45min unpaid lunch so we’re at exactly 40 hours…
Keep forgetting that America has fucked up labour laws, UK and EU have that any lunch period longer than 15 minutes must be paid, and that you are mandated to have 30 mins lunch break every 4-5 hours
Lunch having to be paid is not an EU rule. It just happens to be that multiple countries in the EU have such rulings.
In the Netherlands lunch can still be unpaid unless your union has agreed otherwise in the collective labour agreement.
My job has unpaid lunch according to the employment contract (But thankfully they aren’t too picky about working exactly 8 hours in a day)
Huh, guess another case of “so common you assume it’s the law”
And yet our scumbag “leaders” claim we have it “too good” and continue fighting against worker protections… I wish I could leave lol
I don’t believe there is a requirement for employers in the UK to pay for lunch breaks?
There is, but only for full time employment, part time get shafted
Edit: huh, there isn’t, just is de facto true, even with shit pay jobs like supermarkets
Unpaid lunch?
Isn’t that illegal? It is here
It’s not illegal in the US unfortunately. We clock out and can leave if we want but we have to clock back in after 45 mins. I think the only legal requirement is that there is time allowed for a break after x number of hours worked but it doesn’t have to be paid.