Starbucks cuts lunch breaks and sick leaves

Title: Starbucks to slash paid lunch breaks and sick leave

Subject: abolish paid lunch breaks and sick leave.

Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/dec/03/starbucks-slash-lunch-breaks

Summary

In Britain thousands of Starbucks Barristas will be cut paid lunch breaks, sick leaves and maternity benefits. The house of Commons’ public accounts committee branded the US coffee chain’s tax avoidance practices “immoral”. This change will affect about 7,000 coffee shop staff. On Saturday Starbucks announced it would open talks with the UK, which could lead to paying more tax in the future. The company had seen his pay just £8.6m in UK tax over the past 13 years on sales of £3.1bn. MP’s said they found it hard to believe Starbucks’ claim it had me a loss for 14 of the 15 years it has been operating in the UK. Starbucks explains that funding sick from day of illness “leads to a considerable cost for the company”, and the 30-minute lunch break is meant to take a break from work, though the 10-minute break will be paid.

                                                             

My opinion

I think it is normal not being paid during your break. You are not working in those 30-breaks or 10-minute breaks so you are not productive to the company. I am working at Smullers at the moment and I just get a 30-minute break when I work for more than five and a half hours, and the break is not being paid either. I must agree with the MP’s opinion, that there is no way in 15 years only the last year has been profitable. Starbucks is a huge hype all over the world, you cannot even imagine the number of Starbucks costumers.