What Rog said. The relevant legislation is couched in terms of workers being “entitled” to breaks of the stated duration and also plainly states that employers must take all reasonable steps to ensure those breaks are taken. It puts the onus very much on the employer, not the individual worker.
In a similar way there is earlier working time legislation which sets out workers’ entitlement to annual leave. No worker would ever be penalised by the authorities for voluntarily not taking all his holiday entitlement.
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