Labour Relations Act, 1995 (Act No. 66 of 1995)NoticesBargaining Council for the Laundry Cleaning and Dyeing IndustryKwa Zulu NatalExtension to Non-Parties of the Main Collective AgreementPart C : Hours of Work15. Meal and Other Intervals |
| 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 one hour, or 30 minutes by agreement. |
| 15.2 | No work may be performed during a meal interval. |
| 15.3 | The meal interval is not part of the ordinary or overtime hours worked, except that any time taken by a watchman/security guard as a meal interval is part of that employee's ordinary/overtime hours. |
| 15.4 | A driver of a motor vehicle or canvasser will remain responsible for a vehicle and its load and will be deemed not to have worked during such interval. |
| 15.5 | Intervals of less than one hour, or 30 minutes by agreement, are part of the ordinary or overtime hours of work. |
| 15.6 | Every employee must be given at least two rest breaks, one of not less than 15 minutes at about the middle of the first period of the day and another of not less than 10 minutes at about the middle of the second period of the day. These breaks are part of ordinary time. |
| 15.7 | The provisions regarding rest intervals may be varied to apply to boiler, attendants, canvassers, canvasser's assistants, delivery hands, drivers and watchmen/security guards. |