Working Week

[944fan]

This is a stupid question I know. If someone says that a job has a 40 hour working week, would that mean 8 hours a day total, so 9:00AM to 5:00PM? With an hour for lunch?

If I currently worked 9 - 5:30 that would be 42.5 hour working week?

Getting confused about whether it includes lunch break or not.

[iphonedyou]

944fan said:

This is a stupid question I know. If someone says that a job has a 40 hour working week, would that mean 8 hours a day total, so 9:00AM to 5:00PM? With an hour for lunch?

If I currently worked 9 - 5:30 that would be 42.5 hour working week?

Getting confused about whether it includes lunch break or not.

Doesn't include lunch.

[Sharted]

Lunch is for wimps.

[Kermit power]

iphonedyou said:

944fan said:

This is a stupid question I know. If someone says that a job has a 40 hour working week, would that mean 8 hours a day total, so 9:00AM to 5:00PM? With an hour for lunch?

If I currently worked 9 - 5:30 that would be 42.5 hour working week?

Getting confused about whether it includes lunch break or not.

Doesn't include lunch.

Depends on the job, surely? If you're not hourly paid, it's a moot point anyway. I've no idea what my contract actually says in terms of working hours, as I just do what I have to do to hit my targets. Sometimes that means working stupid hours in a week, and others it means taking a long lunch and leaving early is absolutely fine.

[944fan]

I'm paid a salary. The working hours are flexible.

Just couldn't work out if the total time I needed to be in the office is 40 hours excluding lunch, or 45 including lunch.

I never take a lunch break anyway.

[hornetrider]

40 hours is 8 hours of work a day. Not including lunch.

My contract is 37.5 hours, which is generally 9-5 with 30 mins lunch.

[Sheepshanks]

944fan said:

I'm paid a salary. The working hours are flexible.

Just couldn't work out if the total time I needed to be in the office is 40 hours excluding lunch, or 45 including lunch.

I never take a lunch break anyway.

If you're in some sort of timed environment, ie clocking in or using flexi-time, then many place deduct time for lunch as it's illegal not to be given a break.