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Labour Relations Act, 1995 (Act No. 66 of 1995)

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Bargaining Council for the Civil Engineering Industry: Conditions of Employment Collective Agreement

Chapter 2 : Regulation of Working Time

2.4. Meal intervals

 

2.4.1. An employer shall not require or permit an employee to work for more than five hours continuously without a meal interval of not less than half an hour during which interval such employee shall not be required or permitted to perform any work, and such interval shall not form part of the ordinary hours of work or overtime: Provided that;
(a) Periods of work interrupted by such meal intervals of less than half an hour, except when the proviso in 2.4.1(d) below applies, shall be deemed to be continuous;
(b) If such meal interval is longer than one hour, any period more than one hour shall be deemed to be time worked;
(c) Only one meal interval during the ordinary hours of work of an employee on any day shall not form part of the ordinary hours of work;
(d) When, on any day, by reason of overtime work, an employer is required to give an employee a second meal interval, such interval may, at the request of the employee, be reduced to not less than fifteen minutes.
(e) A driver or an operator of self- propelled or stationary plant who during such interval does not work other than being or remaining in charge of a vehicle or such plant shall be deemed for the purposes of this sub-clause not to have worked during such interval.