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

Notices

Purchase

Unless otherwise specified in the relevant Annexures in Part 2 of this Agreement—

15.1	an employer may not require or permit an employee to work more than five hours continuously without a meal interval of at least 30 minutes;

15.2	subject to the provisions of clause 15.3, no work may be performed during a meal interval;

15.3	during a meal interval the employee may be required or permitted to perform only duties that cannot be left unattended and cannot be performed by another employee;

15.4	an employee must be remunerated for a meal interval in which the employee is required to be available for work;

15.5	the meal interval is not part of the ordinary or overtime hours worked, except that any time worked by a security guard as a meal interval is part of that employee's ordinary or overtime hours;

15.6	intervals of less than 30 minutes are part of the ordinary or overtime hours of work;

15.7	intervals of longer than 1,25 hours are part of the ordinary hours of work;

15.8	every employee must be given at least two 10'nminutm rest breaks per shift and these rest breaks are part of ordinary time;

15.9	the 20 minutes allocated for the rest breaks may by agreement be—

15.9.1

added to the meal interval if less than 40 minutes, or

15.9.2

used to permit employees to leave work before the termination of the working day, without loss of pay.