This is in the UK.
I work at a small independent salon, so small in fact that I am the single employee of the business.
Recently I have changed my hours at work from 42 hours down to 31 a week to accommodate other life commitments.
I have agreed to do 9-2 on three days of the week 9-8 on one day and 9-4 on the final day.
On these longer days I always have one hour deducted for my “lunch break” and as such I have taken to blocking out this hour during my shift. Therefore making my total paid hours 31 per week.
However, this morning I have witnessed my boss changing the schedule so that I work every hour on both of these days and have been told in the past that “we don’t really take conventional breaks so we just grab food when we get a spare 10 minutes”. This is wrong right? Am I going mad?
By my reckoning if they are taking an hour of my wages off me on my longest days surely that’s wage theft? And I’m due that hour if they’re not paying me for it.
My main question is who do I go to about this because I’ve let this go on long enough and i thought with my change in hours I would be able to get this situation sorted.