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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2013-03-23 03:35 pm

[ SECRET POST #2272 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2272 ⌋

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Re: Working Hours

(Anonymous) 2013-03-24 03:19 am (UTC)(link)
I live in the USA. Is it mandated for break times? I was discussing this point the other day saying it was mandated; the other person was saying it wasn't. I googled it and got the federal law, which doesn't require it: http://www.dol.gov/dol/topic/workhours/breaks.htm "Federal law does not require lunch or coffee breaks. However, when employers do offer short breaks (usually lasting about 5 to 20 minutes), federal law considers the breaks as compensable work hours that would be included in the sum of hours worked during the work week and considered in determining if overtime was worked. Unauthorized extensions of authorized work breaks need not be counted as hours worked when the employer has expressly and unambiguously communicated to the employee that the authorized break may only last for a specific length of time, that any extension of the break is contrary to the employer's rules, and any extension of the break will be punished.
Bona fide meal periods (typically lasting at least 30 minutes), serve a different purpose than coffee or snack breaks and, thus, are not work time and are not compensable."

Re: Working Hours

(Anonymous) 2013-03-24 03:57 am (UTC)(link)
It depends on the state's individual labor laws. I live in NH, which has required break and lunch hours. Anything up to 7 hours (I think) requires a total of 30 minutes paid break time, and anything more than that requires an hour unpaid lunch, starting before you've worked 5 hours. (So a typical 9-hour shift is like working two 4-hour shifts with a beak in between.) I know this is law because the HR manager made sure to tell us that this was legally required - partly so our supervisors can't pull one over on us, and partly so the company only pays us the hours they've allotted for us. (Like, my full-time work week is 39 paid hours - because if I work over 40 hours, I get paid overtime, which they don't want to pay for, and they can't make me do unless I accept overtime opportunities.)

Like anything else, it gets fudged a bit, especially at more labor-intensive jobs, but that is NH state law.