In the state of Wisconsin, are there any laws that an employer has to give a lunch or a break in an 8 hour day
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Per the Wisconsin Department of Worforce Development employers are required to give employees under the age of 18 a 30 minute duty free break if their shift is greater than 6 hours.  They are not required to give adult employees a break.  This info was updated 4/24/06.
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State Laws usually mandate when employers must give you "rest periods" or breaks. How much and when depends mostly on the discretion of the employer, but there are some legal protections.\n\nThere is no federal law that gives you meal or rest breaks. However, states sometimes have labor laws which mandate time off for meals (like a lunch break) or for a rest break (perhaps a mid-afternoon break). Further, labor unions oftentimes have specific contracts that explicitly mandate time for breaks. Whether or not you can get paid during breaks depends on your employer and on the same state labor laws.
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It depends on the employment laws in your country; state/province and also on the type of work you do.  In my work, a person has to work more than 5 hours before they are required to take a 1/2 hour lunch/dinner.
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In the Us it is 1 half hour break for lunch and 2-15 minute breaks. Although there are some businesses that have contracts that state you may not always get your breaks. My husband works at a hospital,and if it is too busy,then he doesn't get any breaks. But he was aware of that when he signed the contract to work there.
895504
yes; it is up to the individual employer to give the day off; state and federal employees are the exception; they get the day off; everyone else is at the option of the employer; look at nurses and hospital staff ; all of them don't get the day off
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Unfortunately, I am 99.9% sure that is completely legal.\n\nI mean, according to your explanation, after you clocked backed in from your lunch that would be 1:30 pm.  So, your last stretch of work was only 4.5 hours long.  At most work places people that work 5 hour shifts don't even get breaks.
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For the lack of break(3 years to file) Industrial Welfare Commissioall employers. 5-2001(which covers restaurants) states\n\n"(A) Every employer shall authorize and permit all employees to take rest periods, which insofar as practicable shall be in the middle of each work period. The authorized rest period time shall be based on the total hours worked daily at the rate of ten (10) minutes net rest time per four (4) hours or major fraction thereof. However, a rest period need not be authorized for employees whose total daily work time is less than three and one-half (3 ½) hours. Authorized rest period time shall be counted, as hours worked, for which there shall be no deduction from wages. \n\n(B) If an employer fails to provide an employee a rest period in accordance with the applicable provisions of this Order, the employer shall pay the employee one (1) hour of pay at the employee’s regular rate of compensation for each work day that the rest period is not provided. "\n-----------------\nAs for the reasons There are probably some health code violations.\n-------\nThis is the site to get you started with your claim,\nhttp://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/HowToFileWageClaim.htm\nNOTE: there are exceptions to the rules in the IWC Orders i.e. not all employers must furnish and maintain uniforms
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There is no such law. The Family Medical Leave Act requires employers to give time off for family medical problems, but not school activities.
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No. Laws are set up that say you can only work four hours a day and a max of 16 hours a week (if I remember correctly) during the school year. Summer jobs are different, but even then you cannot work after a certain hour and you cannot work in certain places. \n\nBest bet is a fast food joint. I know - not exactly an awesome job, but you have to start somewhere and gain experience in some way before you can get a "regular" job...\n\nGood luck! And do yourself a favor - dont waste time with the above responses.
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It depends on who you work for. Each employer has different rules. I've worked for one employer who had us work 8.5 hour shifts and we only took 30 minutes for lunch; another it was a 9 hour shift and we took 60 minutes for lunch; and currently I just work 8 hours and my employer lets me have 30 minutes for lunch as a freebie.
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Few states require lunch or rest breaks, if any.  I know that for most employees over the age of 18 in even more politically liberal states like New Jersey do not require rest breaks.  Of course, many states regulate such for minors, but few for workers over the age of 18.\n\nI've included a link to a Department of Labor chart that gives requirements for each state on meal breaks.  It's a pretty short list: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, North Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Washington, and West Virginia.\n\nFor rest breaks, the list shrinks to California, Colorad, Kentucky, Minnesota, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington.\n\nPerhaps few regulate is because most employers voluntarily give rest breaks to employees to make work more bearable.  Perhaps few regulate because unions, often providing the strongest labor law components in states, don't really care if non-unionized labor is forced to receive breaks, but really works hard to ensure that its own members are protected through contract agreements and bargaining.  Regardless, I hope this information helps.
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There is no law that says you get any day off.\n\nNow Government workers might get the day off and certain other unions might negotiate to get the day off, but really its up to the employer.
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That's a lie.  It is supposed to be 15 minutes for every 4 hours worked.  If you work 8 hours, you are also to receive a 30 minute lunch break.
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There is no law in Michigan requiring breaks for meals or otherwise for employees over 18. If your employer has a break policy, the worker must be compeltely free of duties during the break.
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Yes, it is even better than you think. After 8 hours it is OT, after 12 is DT and it does not stop if hte next shift time kicks in while working, because there is a mandated 8 hour break between workdays after 24 hours of owrk, s o they VIOLATED the labor law, unless you have an agreement in place.\n\nQUOTE\n If an employee works unauthorized overtime is the employer obligated to pay for it?\n\n  A. Yes, California law requires that employers pay overtime, whether authorized or not, at the rate of one and one-half times the employee's regular rate of pay for all hours worked in excess of eight up to an including 12 hours in any workday, and for the first eight hours of work on the seventh consecutive day of work in a workweek, and double the employee's regular rate of pay for all hours worked in excess of 12 in any workday and for all hours worked in excess of eight on the seventh consecutive day of work in a workweek.\nhttp://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/FAQ_Overtime.htm\n\nQUOTE\n(d) No employee shall work more than 24 consecutive hours until said employee receives not less than eight (8) consecutive hours off-duty immediately following the 24 consecutive hours of work. Time spent sleeping shall not be included as hours worked. \nhttp://www.dir.ca.gov/t8/11050.html\n\nYou need to go here and choose your type of work from this section. See below for samples:\nhttp://www.dir.ca.gov/scripts/samples/search/querydlse.idq\nGo to the link above and scroll down and start at 11050.
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no, unless the hours worked go over 40 hours.\nmost good companies though will pay double time for hours worked on a holiday. wage laws are for the most part set up by the federal government.
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there are no laws... but in the employer's policies there might be something about being sent home early.  Like where I work, we do not have to go unless we want to and they can not work us less than 4 hours unless we want to work less.