Thai restaurant owner Charn Tiebtienrat is worried that changes to the rules around workers' breaks will mean more disruption for his family-owned business. From next month, changes to the Employment Relations Act will mean that all workers will be allowed a 10-minute break after two hours of work and a half-hour break after four. READ MORE:* Promoting flexible jobs while protecting vulnerable workers* Work breaks: What are your rights? He said the change was "another policy implemented by people who have never owned a business and have no clue how business is run". A big business would have no trouble managing a requirement for set breaks, he said, because they had large numbers of staff and could alter rotations to allow workers some downtime.

Source: Stuff April 03, 2019 01:08 UTC