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Unread 09-10-2010, 09:17 PM
 
Location: Northern NH
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Default I'm so confused about breaks at work.
I started my new job and I'm somewhat confused about the break situation. I don't want to start right out being the whiner though. I am schedule eight and half hours which usually stretched into nine or ten hours I'm paid by the hour and the only break we are given is a one half hour unpaid lunch. I thought we were supposed to be given some paid fifteen minute breaks. Nobody mentions them at all.....so I figure I best keep my moth shut This is in NH.
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Unread 09-10-2010, 09:20 PM
 
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Do like e veryone else in your situation....MAKE YOUR OWN BREAK...but don't tell my boss that I told you
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Unread 09-10-2010, 09:23 PM
 
Location: Northern NH
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Do like e veryone else in your situation....MAKE YOUR OWN BREAK...but don't tell my boss that I told you
Well I would totally do that, but, I am a pharmacy tech and I am at a Rite Aid that has a crappy computer system and we are so busy and confused that we don't even have time to go to the bathroom let alone just take a random break I wouldn't be surprised if I just walk out in the next few weeks
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Unread 09-10-2010, 09:29 PM
 
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I started my new job and I'm somewhat confused about the break situation. I don't want to start right out being the whiner though. I am schedule eight and half hours which usually stretched into nine or ten hours I'm paid by the hour and the only break we are given is a one half hour unpaid lunch. I thought we were supposed to be given some paid fifteen minute breaks. Nobody mentions them at all.....so I figure I best keep my moth shut This is in NH.
Why don't you ask your princess what to do?
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Unread 09-10-2010, 09:42 PM
 
Location: Northern NH
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Why don't you ask your princess what to do?
Who would that be? I googled it and I actually don't think I deserve anymore by law and I guess that figures.
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Unread 09-10-2010, 11:40 PM
 
Location: Spokane via Sydney,Australia
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Federal and state law only provide for an unpaid meal break of min 30 minutes after 5 hours work. There's no provision for paid rest breaks, that's entirely up to the discretion of the employer.

The labour laws in this country suck.
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Unread 09-10-2010, 11:55 PM
 
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The labour laws in this country suck.

As compared to?...

The labor laws of this litigous country are quite generous comparable to... everywhere else on the planet.
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Unread 09-11-2010, 12:00 AM
 
Location: Spokane via Sydney,Australia
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The labour laws in this country suck.

As compared to?...

The labor laws of this litigous country are quite generous comparable to... everywhere else on the planet.

Sorry - compared to Australia they suck.......
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Unread 09-11-2010, 12:05 AM
 
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Sorry - compared to Australia they suck.......
Then why not go back THERE and work... I mean if it's so much better, then why are you HERE?
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Unread 09-11-2010, 12:07 AM
 
Location: Spokane via Sydney,Australia
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Then why not go back THERE and work... I mean if it's so much better, then why are you HERE?

Because I LIVE here now - which doesn't mean I give up my right to say what I think
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