Do you pay staff for there dinner breaks?
- Thread starter jon9000
- Start date
Keen workers hate stopping if busy -don't you eat on the go ??Get them too stitch themselves up should there be an accidentI like that
Make them stop if that's what you want its your choice.
- Location
- Bedfordshire
My ‘staff’ is a self employed chap. I pay him from when he arrives to when he leaves. He has the same breaks as me, none, or maybe an hour for lunch if we are not busy. It doesn’t cost a lot in the long run and he appreciates the little extra.
I don't have staff. If I did, they'd be salaried, and trustworthy. If we were busy, I'd expect them to work same hours as me when necessary, take a sandwich, stop in field, we'd provide harvest tea, etc.
If we were not busy, and up to date, I'd rather they went home and did some decorating or something. Nothing worse than job creation and presentee-ism; it just costs money.
Edit to say, we had a chap yrs ago, old school, home to breakfast, home to dinner, always ran to an hour and half. Did his hours, fair enough as far as it went.
But it drove me up the wall, we'd be finding jobs for him to do half the time, just to appear busy. Then at harvest, etc, he'd be writing down overtime. Never again.
If we were not busy, and up to date, I'd rather they went home and did some decorating or something. Nothing worse than job creation and presentee-ism; it just costs money.
Edit to say, we had a chap yrs ago, old school, home to breakfast, home to dinner, always ran to an hour and half. Did his hours, fair enough as far as it went.
But it drove me up the wall, we'd be finding jobs for him to do half the time, just to appear busy. Then at harvest, etc, he'd be writing down overtime. Never again.
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- Location
- South West
No paid from the minute they come down the drive to the minute they leave. Some days they don’t stop other days spend more time propping up a broom in the sheds watching rain come down. Win some loose some.
They also don’t stress about booking that extra 10 minutes here and there that others would.
They also don’t stress about booking that extra 10 minutes here and there that others would.
Boohoo
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- Location
- Newtownabbey
In my job away from farming I'm paid 45 minutes a day for breaks, or an hour if I do over 12 hours that day.
I'm self employed. When not working at home on the farm I work for a local groundworks contracor. I bill him at the end of each month and my hours are from door to door. Lunch breaks vary in time, some are longer than others depending on the situation, if we are lying concrete its a matter of snacking in between loads!! So swings in roundabouts and if he's happy I'm happy.
- Location
- Ceredigion
Next you be asking if you pay him while he's on the Dunny
- Location
- South West
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 ?
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 …
- Location
- DD9.
We pay a 15minute break in morning but not lunch or afternoon break. Some guys work thru that and are paid. Timesheets account for breaks taken.
No one remembers why we pay the 15minute morning break. Did try to modernise it at one point……🫣.
No one remembers why we pay the 15minute morning break. Did try to modernise it at one point……🫣.
- Location
- West Suffolk
We used to take off 1 hour a day when we had employees. That was 3 breaks per day between 7.30am and 5.30/6pm
As an old man I used to do a bit of work for said “if a man isn’t worth his food he ain’t worth much” always stuck by me
michael N123
Member
There not at home with the family’s or away doing anything
they are still at work for that 30minutes
they are still at work for that 30minutes
- Location
- South West
Bet your the sorta bloke that won’t buy when it’s your round at the butty van or pub too
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Is that not standard practice, has been everywhere i’ve ever worked
An 8 hr day is actually 7.30 till 4, if dinner is worked through, put down half an hours O/T
Do you feed them when working after 6 , full supper here ,and if any spanner men ,etc are here on a saturday they get fed regardless , pot tea, bacon butties and cake or scone ,
beet contractors get fed too