The lunch break is unpaid. However, some employers choose to make their lunch breaks paid. The break can become a paid one if you are kept on-call during the break. If you work more than 5 hours but less than 6 hours in a day, you and your employer may agree to waive the lunch ...
By requiring extra pay for overtime hours, state and federal overtime laws may deter employers from making an employee work extremely long hours in a day. However, full-time exempt workers such as professional employees and some salaried employees do not benefit from this deterrence. Trucking reg...