Whenever I say to people that breaks aren’t a law requirement, they think I’m lying and pulling their leg. But, err, I had to study employment law to get my Certificate in Management so, yes, it’s true, unless my teacher was lying to me, but I’m even looked it up myself, and there is no provisioning for your smoko breaks. The Department of Labour merely encourages them.

So it is good to hear that finally, they are putting it into law. I’m a bit unsure why it wasn’t there in the first place, considering it was Labour that put in the current law in 2001. It will require two paid 10 minute coffee breaks and a 30 minute unpaid lunch break for every eight hours someone works. It’ll also provide for breast feeding mothers to have breaks to breast feed or express milk and have adequate facilities to do so.

And it’s about time. Seems like a subtle attempt to get you to vote for them (but then so does everything proposed during election year), but good none-the-less. Now my friends will no longer be in disbelief that their breaks aren’t in law.