Siouxsie
Moderator
What can be done, I work 8-1pm, so that's 5 hours, have to book a days holiday if I want that off, so basically that's giving them 3 hours. Plus we cant have a break that day. Normal days we only get 30mins break that has to be taken all at once, smokers arnt allowed 3 x 10 mins or whatever and no other breaks allowed at all. Which I'm sure isn't right when you are staring at a computer screen all day!
H & S guidance is short frequent breaks are better for screen users, but since it is guidance and not law I don't know if you could insist:
http://www.hse.gov.uk/contact/faqs/vdubreaks.htm