Combination of being salaried plus industry culture.
Comment on after 40 all meals are horror
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks agoIs a proper meal period with rest not guaranteed by law?
Or is it, but it’s hard to fight for it because the workplace culture is shaped differently?
Got_Bent@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I’m in the state of Georgia: no provision for breaks are given at all.
I used to live in the UK: I think the rule was employers are required to give 30 mins per 10 hours works, cannot be in the first or last hour.
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Oh man that’s brutal.
Yeah here in Switzerland it’s similar to the UK rule. Any shift longer than 6 hours needs to be interrupted by an unpaid but uninterrupted break of at least 30min for eating, such that there isn’t more than a 6 hour continuous work period on either side of the break, IIRC.
Our standard for full-time employment is 8.4h per day. (That’s a bit high in comparison to neighboring countries). It’s very usual that you get your eating break somewhere between 11:30-13:30 o’clock, maybe on rotation with coworkers if you need to keep the phones staffed.
In my office job we all go together from around 11:45 to 12:45.