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Happens to me nearly every 11 hour day.~snip~
Of course, the company requires us to take a total of 45 break during the day, and we DO take it at about 4 ish at the latest, but not as a requirement for WTD.
If you’re working an 11 hour shift with no POA you are legally required to have 45 minutes of break/breaks, it’s a WTD requirement.
Fair enough, I did wonder about that in the early days. There’s seems to be some mis-info running between porters and drivers then. Thanks
The rules for the Road Transport (Working Time) Regulations 2005.
Breaks
No worker should work more than 6 hours without a break of 15 minutes. (commonly known as the 6 hour rule)
So the rule for the 6 hour rule is:
A 15 minute break should start
- No later than 6 hours working time from the start of the shift
And - No later than 6 hours working time since the end of the last break.[/list:u][/list:u]
Total breaks in each shift should be:
Up-to 6 hours working time.
- No break is legally required.
If the total working time in the shift is more than 6 hours but not more than 9 hours.
- A total break/breaks of 30 minutes is required, this can be taken in 2 parts of 15 minutes each and at-least 15 minutes of the 30 minute break should be taken before going over 6 hours working time.
Or (You are legally required to comply with either the rule above, or the rule bellow but not both)
If the total working time in the shift is more than 9 hours.
- Total break/breaks should be at-least 45 minutes and at no point in the shift should you do more than 6 hours working time before having a break of at-least 15 minutes.
- So for the 6 hour rule a 15 minute break should be taken
- No later than 6 hours working time from the start of the shift
- And*
- No later than 6 hours working time since the end of the last break.
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Breaks for the working time regulations (RT(WT)R 2005) can be split into separate breaks of at-least 15 minutes each and cannot be taken at the immediate start or end of the shift.
Driving breaks count as breaks for the RT(WT)R and where appropriate breaks for the RT(WT)R count as driving breaks.