Comments on: Breaks https://www.evilhrlady.org/2007/07/breaks.html Everything to make HR better Tue, 17 Jul 2007 03:40:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 By: Teri https://www.evilhrlady.org/2007/07/breaks.html#comment-797 Tue, 17 Jul 2007 03:40:00 +0000 http://localhost/wordpress/2007/07/breaks.html#comment-797 Whose decision is it to work at your desk? If it is the employer’s, then they are not relieving you of duties and cannot force you to be unpaid for that time.

If you are choosing to work at your desk and eat lunch, and they want you to have an unpaid lunch, they should shoo you out the door and make sure you don’t come back five minutes early.

I had to research this recently and it appears that it is DOL policy that a lunch break has to be at least 30 minutes to be unpaid.

]]> By: Michael Moore https://www.evilhrlady.org/2007/07/breaks.html#comment-796 Thu, 12 Jul 2007 15:08:00 +0000 http://localhost/wordpress/2007/07/breaks.html#comment-796 “Off the Clock” work is one of the Special Intitiative areas targeted for compliance audits by the Department of Labor. The DOL website has a lot of information including industry based Fact Sheets noting areas of noncompliance like working through lunch. See http://www.dol.gov/esa/whd/offtheclock/index.htm

It seems the HR department is just following the law.

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