I’ve always noted with a certain cynicism that the old nomenclature for the workday ‘9-5’ adds up to eight hours. Surely these people weren’t missing lunch…
There’s also unpaid lunch in Denmark. This would though mean that you cannot be interrupted in your half-hour lunch break for work. If you get paid lunch time your employer can though legally call you in for work again if they need you, e.g. calling in the doctor for an emergency operation.
Good for you then! I work in IT with time critical trading systems, so lunch is sometimes interrupted so we can fix the issues. Bit annoying, but that’s part of the deal.
And that’s why lunch should be paid if it’s inside the workday.
I’ve always noted with a certain cynicism that the old nomenclature for the workday ‘9-5’ adds up to eight hours. Surely these people weren’t missing lunch…
This is how it is at my current job in Denmark. Never experienced it before working in Denmark.
There’s also unpaid lunch in Denmark. This would though mean that you cannot be interrupted in your half-hour lunch break for work. If you get paid lunch time your employer can though legally call you in for work again if they need you, e.g. calling in the doctor for an emergency operation.
I have a hard time seeing that happening at my workplace, but I see how it can be significant for jobs like medical staff, security, etc.
Good for you then! I work in IT with time critical trading systems, so lunch is sometimes interrupted so we can fix the issues. Bit annoying, but that’s part of the deal.
I also work in IT, but tbf that sounds a lot more exciting than the projects I work on.