23rd April 2006, 12:49 PM
The simple system is indeed simple Peter... and that's why we need
a) full clarification about what exactly it means (clear as mud at the moment)
b)tea breaks are not included -
Under the Working Time Directive (which applies to most adult workers and sets out the minimum standards for working hours), your employer has to offer a break of at least 20 minutes if the working day is longer than 6 hours. Under these minimum standards, if your lunch break is over 20 minutes, it counts as your full entitlement to a break for that day.
As to holiday entitlements, pension rights and Sickness, these are being introduced by the IFA in April 2007, BAJR is supporting this with a series of new tick boxes on the adverts that show clearly whether the employer is providing thee rights.
It should be remembered that legaly, you only need to get 20 days holiday a year, and strictly speaking sickness and pension rights are only given after a set time working for the company, BUT, the IFA, BAJR and PROSPECT are asking that these rights are given freely - and that holidays also include bank holidays etc. (which is not required at present)
Another day another WSI?
a) full clarification about what exactly it means (clear as mud at the moment)
b)tea breaks are not included -
Under the Working Time Directive (which applies to most adult workers and sets out the minimum standards for working hours), your employer has to offer a break of at least 20 minutes if the working day is longer than 6 hours. Under these minimum standards, if your lunch break is over 20 minutes, it counts as your full entitlement to a break for that day.
As to holiday entitlements, pension rights and Sickness, these are being introduced by the IFA in April 2007, BAJR is supporting this with a series of new tick boxes on the adverts that show clearly whether the employer is providing thee rights.
It should be remembered that legaly, you only need to get 20 days holiday a year, and strictly speaking sickness and pension rights are only given after a set time working for the company, BUT, the IFA, BAJR and PROSPECT are asking that these rights are given freely - and that holidays also include bank holidays etc. (which is not required at present)
Another day another WSI?