Working Hours & Breaks

Working hours

Your hours of work will be detailed in your written Statement of Main Terms and Conditions of Employment.

Normal office hours are 40 hours per week (excluding breaks). The company’s normal business hours are 8.30am to 6.00pm Monday to Friday plus activities in the evenings and weekends as part of our Creative Engagement programme and performances of our productions. Your start and end times can be flexible with arrangement with your line manager. We also will consider blended working where staff work both from the office and from home. For full details see our Home Working Policy.

The objective is to get the job done and maintain standards. With imagination, goodwill and mutual trust, we can enable personal needs to be met as far as is practicable, subject to the needs of the business. We trust staff to self-manage their time but where it is thought that staff are not keeping time to the required standard, this will be discussed with their manager.

Working time does not include normal travel between work and home, rest breaks, time spent travelling outside normal working hours and non-job-related training

Breaks

Staff members are entitled to an unpaid 30 minutes break for shifts longer than 6 hours. In addition to this, reasonable tea breaks that do not exceed 10 minutes are allowed at the discretion of your line manager.