Weekend Rest - Can you split over two weeks?

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Think I already know the answer as it was one continuous break but…

Give the Xmas break - I finished Thurs at 12.10. Didn’t go back into work until this morning till 8.

Obviously over 115 hrs break over the Sunday start of week etc.

Now could I say first 45 was for last week and the next 45+ was for this week giving me all New Years weekend to work( Sad yes but reason for it!!)

I’m 99.99% sure I can’t as I’ve already said it was a continuous rest.

Wish I could as I’ve a chance of some ludicrous extra work but I’ve a niggly that it doesn’t work that way to burst me old bubble!!

■■? Legal answers only !!

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A single uninterrupted rest period of 69 hours or more may be counted as two back-to-back weekly rests periods.

So - as long as that single rest spans midnight Sunday into Monday then the rest can be split and counted in each of the weeks. In your case this would be a regular in each week (last week and this week) meaning you can now work 6 consecutive 24 hour periods (144 hours) before another rest is due and that rest could then be a reduced rest

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Thank you! Means another wedge towards my CE fund !

I didn’t think I could but learnt something new for long weekends .

4

dcgpx:
I’ve a chance of some ludicrous extra work

Is that ludicrous extra work or lucrative extra work, or ludicrously lucrative extra work :smiley:

5

All 3 if it pans out tomorrow after a phone call! Don’t like working New Years but can’t really refuse this offer. Fingers X it comes off, depends on another company being open.

Worse than buying a house with the chain malarkey, ah!!!

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By using a rest period of at least 90 hours including a sunday midnight as two separate regular 45 weekly rests to cover the week ending and the week starting means that the weekly rests have been moved from the end of each week to the start of each week

By doing this it can mean that two reduced weekly rests can be done in a row with one not counting for any week and not requiring compensation