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Originally Posted by johnep  breaks are a right but if you are charging for your time by the hour, then why should someone pay you when you are 'not working'.
All the time I worked for BTC, I was only ever paid for 6 1/2 hours in a nominal 8 hour day. One hour for lunch and two 15 min breaks.
However, except in dire emergency those break times were undisturbed.
johnep |
Agreed - you have to be business-like. I would not be expect to be paid for breaks. However, if I did a delivery in my lunch break I would claim the time, same if asked back early or left a bit later. Not had anyone employing me object to this either. For locums breaks are a good time to read the pharmacy magazines (CPD they call it now) or to let the two co-codamol 8/500 start to work on the headache from the morning session.