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Aug 1, 1999 · The UK's traditional lunch hour is under threat and could soon disappear altogether, as recent research found that only one in four workers are still taking the statutory one-hour for lunch.
May 1, 1998 · 1st May 1998, 1:00am. Neil Sears. There was a time when the lunch hour was just that, but the time pupils and teachers have to themselves in the middle of the day has been steadily eaten away. In National School Meals Week, Neil Sears visits two comprehensives that have drastically cut their midday breaks.
- Neil Sears
1st job, (national UK, ex-nationalised), had paid lunch hours and two paid 20min breaks each day! In the mid-80s the breaks became 'paid for 10 mins, but you can take 15' as one of the annual pay deals.
Aug 3, 2015 · In my experience (going back to the late 70s), many firms dropped it to half an hour and working times were amended when staff moaned there was nothing to do in an hour. So, before they'd work 8.30-5.30, or 9-6, with an hour for lunch .... and afterwards they either finished 30 minutes early, or started 30 minutes later, and only had 30 minutes ...
May 2, 2022 · Previous research shows the lunch hour was being eroded before Covid changed work patterns, with separate early 2020 research founding a third of UK workers ate lunch at their desk, with 43%...
Rest breaks at work. Workers have the right to one uninterrupted 20 minute rest break during their working day, if they work more than 6 hours a day. This could be a tea or lunch break. The break...
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Jan 25, 2013 · A year ago the average lunch break nationally was 33 minutes, but the latest survey shows it has shrunk by a further four minutes in the last 12 months. The sacrificed break time adds up to an ...
