• lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    If it is, I think it’s illegal in the US at least. By law I think employers are required to give at least one 30 minute break a day.

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        6 months ago

        Quite surprising that it’s based on state law, rather than something that’s mandated by the US Federal government. Employers being able to forbid their employees from having lunch unless their particular state, or medical requirements force their hand does not seem like a legal thing.

        It does track, since the US was also one of the few countries that does not consider food to be a mandatory right (their official justification here), but still.

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          6 months ago

          Yes, all states mandate meal breaks except Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming (source)

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              6 months ago

              Can you give me a link the law mandating meal breaks? The only bit of Arizona legislature I can find regarding meal breaks is HB 2797, which did not pass into actual law.

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          6 months ago

          That’s what unions are for ultimately. Educate you about your rights and help enforce them. But uuhhh no that’s dirty communism so forget about them.

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            6 months ago

            My company has 14 people in it total. Getting a union figured out for the 8 of us that need it would be a disaster

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      6 months ago

      “Illegal” who enforces that lol. You complain to get fired unless you have a legal team ready to go against a corrupt corporation. I’ve watched companies break all kinds of laws my entire life and it’s about to get a whole lot worse.

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        6 months ago

        There are labor lawyers that take cases like this on contingency. A case like this is a slam dunk for them. You don’t have to just sit there and take it.

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          6 months ago

          Oh I see you still have hope that our system works for anyone except the corporations and oligarchs. That has not been my experience