Comment on Did the concept of 9-5 included a 30 minute lunch and two 15 minute breaks?

weariedfae@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• Diddlydee@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Is this a US thing? Do you not get paid for your lunch hour? That’s wild.

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  • Letstakealook@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Most people don’t. So, for an average employee, it would be 9-530 to account for their unpaid 30m lunch required by law.

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    • Lemming6969@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I believe many places lunch is not required, and neither is any limit on number of hours per day required.

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  • gdog05@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    In the US, you’re lucky if you get paid for the hours you work. And many don’t get all of their hours paid.

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    • Kaboom@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      In the US, it’s Salary, not Hourly. It’s not “getting paid for the time”, you get paid for doing the job you agreed to do.

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      • xmunk@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Most salaried workers are written up if they fail to work 8+ hours. Salaried is now just a method to deny people overtime - fancied salaried workers may still operate in the intended way but even most developers I know have to obey some sort of time tracking method.

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  • otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I live in Canada. We get a half-hour lunch that isn’t paid in my province.

    Also, if you take more than 3 sick days a year, your boss can fire you. And the 3 sick days are unpaid. The government lowered the number from 10 to 3 shortly before the pandemic, and didn’t raise it again! Oh, and to count, your boss can demand a doctor’s note. Which cost money to the patient.

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Damn, Canada is becoming less and less a viable escape plan from American fascism…

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      • otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        There might still be some decent provinces.

        But yeah, I blame brain drain, cuts to the education system, and the influence of American culture! Haha

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    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That’s so toxic! I get an hour long paid lunch break, and a bunch of paid sick days. Your work’s policies are shit, I’m so sorry!

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      • otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        It’s not my work’s policies. I get better than that. It’s what my province legally mandates that’s the problem.

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    • Decipher0771@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Where do you live, Alberta? Or one of the maritimes??

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      • NotSteve_@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Sounds like Ontario 🙃

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      • otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        It’s Ontario! aka. Open for (Big) Business. No longer “Yours to Discover” because it’s all been sold off.

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  • Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You get paid for lunch? Where is that? We don’t either in Switzerland

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  • benni@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Same in Germany, I think this common in many countries, no?

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  • amelia@feddit.org ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Where do you get paid for your lunch hour? I’m in Germany and while work life balance is certainly a thing here, more so than in the US, a paid lunch break is something I have never heard about.

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  • Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Depends on the state, in my state you legally have to get paid for 30 minute lunches but not hour long lunches. No idea why but because of this most office jobs will give you an hour lunch in addition to your mandated 2, 10 minute breaks.

    Honestly I would love to just take a 30 minute break and get out earlier. It’s not even about the money.

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  • ShepherdPie@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Typically no but my current employer pays us for 1/2 of our 1 hour lunch.

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  • calcopiritus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Spaniard here. Not only does my company not pay me for lunch time. It also demands it to be at least 30 minutes long. How is it even legal to force my unpaid time to be a minimum amount?

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    • bstix@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      It’s probably a law. Mandatory minimum breaks make perfect sense for factory workers.

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      • calcopiritus@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        They should be paid though

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  • GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    For the record, lunch time is not considered paid time in Sweden either.

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• ArgentRaven@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Those old tv shows where they casually eat breakfast before work make more sense. They weren’t up at 6, rushing to get to work by 8. They had a whole hour more.

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  • otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    They also had someone to make it for them. One income was enough for the household.

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