Do you pay staff for there dinner breaks?

[Boomerang]

Know of a farmer whose attitude is , tractors have GPS autosteer , no need for staff to stop at all ,eat on move , only reason to stop is a pee or break down. Otherwise keep going , he's a dawn to dusk kinda guy . Work is all he knows .

 

[michael N123]

Know of a farmer whose attitude is , tractors have GPS autosteer , no need for staff to stop at all ,eat on move , only reason to stop is a pee or break down. Otherwise keep going , he's a dawn to dusk kinda guy . Work is all he knows .

Who the f**k wants to do that everyday

 

[Jasper]

Once got caught at the barbers and was told not to get my hair cut in works time so I told him it had grown in works time he said not all of it so I said I hadn’t had all of it cut after that he didn’t know what to say

 

[kiwi pom]

I expect my staff to take a 30mins dinner break at noon. Which is unpaid. Is this reasonable? If we are busy and they don't stop I pay them.

Yes perfectly reasonable, might even be a legal requirement?

If they choose to work through them and you allow that they should be paid, which you say you do so no problem.

Should be in their contract really.

The UK might have some requirement for paid 10/15 minute "tea breaks" after so many hours worked?

Someone who actually knows the legal requirements might chime in at some point.

 

[kiwi pom]

I know you’re from Yorkshire but are you serious?
All our staff are entitled to 40 minutes for breakfast and an hour for lunch - paid as part of their salary or as part of their working day if casuals

Then again, us dairy farmers move to the beat of a different drum …

You pay for breakfast and lunch breaks?
6-6 is paid 12 hours?

 

[Bald Rick]

You pay for breakfast and lunch breaks?
6-6 is paid 12 hours?

Of course … but full time are all on salaries (with the usual add ons)

 

[Bongodog]

My staff are paid from the minute they arrive to the minute they leave, during that time I take a lunch break and I expect them to as well. Break is taken to suit the days workload, might be anywhere between 11.30 and 2pm. My reasoning for paying whilst on break is that its not at a fixed time. Free tea and coffee whenever they want and the occasional slice of cake as well.

 

[Werzle]

Seems alot of farmers advertising for staff so be carefull what you wish for, a good worker could probably have another job within 10 mins of walking away.

 

[michael N123]

Next you be asking if you pay him while he's on the Dunny

There was a woman not far from me who got a young lass to help her lambing one year.. offered her a cup of tea and she accepted it When she paid the bill she’d itemised the price of water milk and tea bag and deducted it

 

[Blue.]

I’ve never been cards in,only ever been self employed,I’ve never been paid for breaks.

 

[Interested in farming]

Yes perfectly reasonable, might even be a legal requirement?

If they choose to work through them and you allow that they should be paid, which you say you do so no problem.

Should be in their contract really.

The UK might have some requirement for paid 10/15 minute "tea breaks" after so many hours worked?

Someone who actually knows the legal requirements might chime in at some point.

Do You Get Paid for Lunch Breaks in the UK? | CPS

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Its a 5 second google. Any job I ever had 'tea break' was paid, lunch unpaid but I've mostly been salary so I get the same pay no matter how many extra hours I did. One place I worked the fork lift drivers earned more than the shift managers when it was busy.

 

[Lofty1984]

And folk wonder why there is a shortage of good staff in ag

 

[Johnnyboxer]

There was a woman not far from me who got a young lass to help her lambing one year.. offered her a cup of tea and she accepted it When she paid the bill she’d itemised the price of water milk and tea bag and deducted it

Was that a sheep farmer in Yorkshire?

 

[ollie989898]

It’s hard enough to find and keep good staff at best of time is it really worth the cost of half hour a day argument ?

Once you have more than 1 or 2 staff on the place I should think there is a benefit of keeping everything as simple as possible and avoiding grief!

 

[ollie989898]

And folk wonder why there is a shortage of good staff in ag

It's a bit sad really. It can be a reasonable livelihood and way of life. But everyone in the UK seems so mercenary these days.

 

[kiwi pom]

And folk wonder why there is a shortage of good staff in ag

Not sure what you're complaining about, if I have a lunch break, I don't expect to be paid for it, do you?
I'd be much more concerned if the OP said they didn't let staff have a meal break.

I have worked places where you are paid clock in to clock out and appreciated it, but don't expect it.

 

[Beet King]

Know of a farmer whose attitude is , tractors have GPS autosteer , no need for staff to stop at all ,eat on move , only reason to stop is a pee or break down. Otherwise keep going , he's a dawn to dusk kinda guy . Work is all he knows .

I knew of a large East Anglian farmer and haulier who ran two Track Marshalls back in the day for ploughing and top work. He told the drivers he expected no stopping as the TM's would hold a straight line and they could stand on the footplate and pee off the side once lined up and moving forward!

 

[Ffermer Bach]

I expect my staff to take a 30mins dinner break at noon. Which is unpaid. Is this reasonable? If we are busy and they don't stop I pay them.

I think you have to take a break, if I remember working 4 hours or more in a single hit, you need to have a paid 15 minutes break, that is why bait is paid in the morning, then an unpaid lunch hour (or whatever) followed by 3 hours in a solid block.

I used to deal with one builder, and his office manager told me, that she always docked an hour from the day for every employee for lunch, unpaid, they had to stop.

 

[David.]

There was a woman not far from me who got a young lass to help her lambing one year.. offered her a cup of tea and she accepted it When she paid the bill she’d itemised the price of water milk and tea bag and deducted it

She'll probably die worth millions, but the church will be empty.

 

[essexpete]

It is years since I was employed on a farm but the few I worked for it was not complicated. The early start ones were 1/2 hour breakfast break in my time and an hour lunch break in my time. We might have 2 other short tea breaks mid morning and later afternoon. The latter were fitted around the jobs with common sense and was in farm time. Working during the breakfast or lunch break was overtime. This was when the standard day was 8 hrs.