California does. Guaranteed 10 min break every two hours, and guaranteed 30 min unpaid lunch if you work over 6 hours, mandatory overtime after 10 hours, and a second 30 min meal break if working over 12 hours.
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cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months agoJust a quick question: do people above the age of 17 not get guaranteed meal breaks?
bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Deello@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Guaranteed 10 min break every two hours
PAID 10 minute breaks, as in you don’t have to clock out. Also gonna add that you get extra breaks if working outdoors during extreme heat, 95+ iirc.
bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 2 months ago
You’re supposed to get those extra heat breaks, but they don’t always happen, again depends on the boss.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Lmao. Nope. And anything you are supposed to get is covered under the At Will employment laws. Which is a fancy way of saying your boss can walk in and say you’re fired at any time, give no reason, and tell the state it was for cause so they shouldn’t pay out your Unemployment Insurance.
Deello@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Looking at the other comments I guess it depends on the state. I’m in my 30s and have had a few friends over the years tell me that they sued, and won, their employers for missing breaks. Needless to say all of my managers/bosses have gone out of their way to make sure I get my breaks to avoid that happening. I have even heard of situations where people just randomly get a check in the mail because somebody else sued the company and after an audit it was discovered that the company was not allowing for proper breaks. This forced all past employees to get compensated for it. California in case you’re wondering.
Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
No, not in Florida. Other states do however.
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
No. Or any other kind of break. Also benefits are determined by part time vs full time, which itself is generally determined be working either less than 40 hours a week, or 40+. In other words part time is generally 39.99999 hours a week.
cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
You wouldn’t believe labour rights here in Germany. And yet, the work gets done.
InputZero@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I worked for a German company briefly. The pay was great and they literally wouldn’t let me do overtime. Best job I’ve ever had.
cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Come back! Germany will need loads of qualified workers in the coming years. There are 500 billion to be spent on infrastructure and the labor market is already quite tight. We will need people everywhere and in many places English-speaking colleagues are not a problem.
Kornblumenratte@feddit.org 2 months ago
I’ve got a Mexican coworker. She was terrified when she returned after her first sickday, fearing a profound scoulding by our consultant. She did get one - when she turned up sick a couple of weeks later :)
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Oh i would believe them. I’m a federal employee (for now), we’re considered to have “great benefits” that are actually less than the bare minimum in many first world countries; we also get less pay (at least in IT) compared to private sector to “justify” these benefits. The benefits they are constantly chipping away it while also taking more out of our paychecks each year with raises below actual cost of living and inflation.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
In Canada the federal government ends up having to hire contractors for anything IT related because the pay is crap when on the inside, in the end it costs more than just increasing IT’s pay to be somewhat competitive
I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 2 months ago
As a Californian, I also find this shocking. What the fuck, Florida?
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Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
I thought there was a federal requirement for shifts over a certain length to get a break of a certain minimum length? It’s not much, it’s not remotely good, but I’m pretty sure it exists.