Unless you are salaried. Being salaried normally comes with flexibility but gives no guarantees for breaks and number of hours worked.
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grue@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
If you aren’t getting a paid lunch and two 15-minute breaks during your 8-hour shift, your employer is stealing from you.
Vorticity@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
grue@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
That works both ways. If you’re salaried and find yourself averaging more than 40 hours a week, don’t.
lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 4 weeks ago
Sadly 32-40 hour weeks excluding breaks is what you get paid here (NL, Europe)
So if you get paid 40 hours a week, they expect you to average 45 including breaks. You get paid 40, though.
It’s really shitty IMO
mxcory@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
There are two types of salary, exempt and non-exempt (from overtime pay). If I am remembering correctly, you basically have to be management to not get overtime pay. Something like being over at least 2 people and having input on major decisions. May have been more to it.
candybrie@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
The list of exemptions is a mile long at this point: www.ecfr.gov/current/title-29/…/part-541?toc=1
grue@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
You have to be either management or highly-compensated (which means fuck-all, since the dollar amount tied to it never got updated for inflation). That’s why a lot of non-management tech workers are salaried exempt, and should therefore walk out whenever they’re told to work more than 40 hours/week (including lunch and breaks).
tyrant@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I’ve never had a paid lunch. 2 paid 15 min breaks and then unpaid lunch is the law where I am.
janus2@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
my dumbass state has no requirements for breaks at all. one of my jobs has no official breaks. we’ve all mastered the art of looking busy while eating 💀