Employees must work a certain number of hours to have half-hour or full-hour meal periods. In some instances, if the employee is the only person on site they will be paid for time worked while eating their lunch. While New York state labor law regulates meal breaks, it does not require...
Neither federal nor Ohio statutes require employers to offer coffee breaks, lunch breaks or other rest periods to employees over the age of 16. However, federal law requires employers to pay for breaks of less than 20 minutes, and if the employee is not relieved of all duties during his lun...
During lunch breaks in those years, workers would bring their kau kau tins filled with rice and their home cooking, gather together and share what little shade there was and eat lunches together. One by one, each worker might share their food creating a shareable feast on newspapers. Those ...