For shifts 10 hours or longer, an employee is entitled to two 30-minute breaks. An employee is not entitled to any breaks if their shift is 5 hours or less.An employee is entitled to one 30-minute paid or unpaid break after the first 5 hours of work for shifts that are between 5 and 10 hours long. Most employees (there are some exemptions) can take one 30minute break for a meal, in their first five hours of work. The short answer is no. Alberta's Employment Standards Code (ESC) doesn't require employers to provide non-unionized employees with meal breaks. Laws for minimum wage, overtime, holidays, job-protected leaves, vacations, hours of work, earnings, youth workers and termination. Labour laws in Alberta reference everything from before you've hired a worker to your extension of employment to employees quitting or being terminated. Laws about hours of work say when and for how long employees can work and when they get breaks and rest days. Tennessee is the topranked team in the nation and boasts the school's best start in more than 100 years.