Common use of Meals and Rest Breaks Clause in Contracts

Meals and Rest Breaks. MPI will provide employees with a reasonable opportunity, during the employee’s work period, for rest, refreshment, and attention to personal matters. The breaks are all uninterrupted. NB: For the purpose of this clause/table alone “work period” includes all paid and unpaid breaks as specified above. An employee is generally expected to manage their work so as to ensure they have the following breaks and achieve what is required of them: • A meal break of between 30 and 60 minutes about the middle of the period of work for the day at an agreed convenient time; • [a] paid break/s of about 10 minutes at an agreed convenient time between the parties. Where Category B employees are rostered for a period of duty of 11 hours and 25 minutes, one paid meal breaks of thirty minutes duration will be notified to them on the daily work allocation sheet. A second paid break of thirty minutes being 3x10 minute paid rest breaks will also be notified. The first between two and four hours of commencement of duty; the second four hours after the end of the first break. Employees will not normally be required to work for more than 5 hours continuously without being relieved from duty for a meal period of between 30 and 60 minutes.

Meals and Rest Breaks. MPI will provide employees with a reasonable opportunity, during the employee’s work period, for rest, refreshment, and attention to personal matters. The breaks are all uninterrupted. NB: For the purpose of this clause/table alone “work period” includes all paid and unpaid breaks as specified above. An employee is generally expected to manage their work so as to ensure they have the following breaks and achieve what is required of them: •  A meal break of between 30 and 60 minutes about the middle of the period of work for the day at an agreed convenient time; •  [a] paid break/s of about 10 minutes at an agreed convenient time between the parties. Where Category B employees are rostered for a period of duty of 11 hours and 25 minutes, one paid meal breaks of thirty minutes duration will be notified to them on the daily work allocation sheet. A second paid break of thirty minutes being 3x10 minute paid rest breaks will also be notified. The first between two and four hours of commencement of duty; the second four hours after the end of the first break. Employees will not normally be required to work for more than 5 hours continuously without being relieved from duty for a meal period of between 30 and 60 minutes.