What happens if my employer doesn't give me a break?

First check your state's labor laws to see if breaks are required. If so, you can file a complaint. If the company is not in violation of any of your state's labor laws, then complaining would be useless. If there is a violation, then your company could be investigated and perhaps even fined.

What to do if your boss won't give you a break?

If HR won't help you, go to your local labor board and report them. And if you do go to your local labor board, talk to a lawyer and let them know what's going on. Also, try and take your 30-minute breaks to show that you're following the law or at least trying to. Plus, it'll give you more evidence against your boss.

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Yes, you can bring a legal claim associated with the employer not providing you with a reasonable opportunity to take your meal or rest periods.

First check your state's labor laws to see if breaks are required. If so, you can file a complaint. If the company is not in violation of any of your state's labor laws, then complaining would be useless. If there is a violation, then your company could be investigated and perhaps even fined.

There is no requirement under South Carolina law for an employer to provide employees with breaks or a lunch period.

Employers who make it difficult or impossible for their workers to take these legally-protected breaks owe their workers compensation for forcing them to miss their breaks. Should they fail to provide this compensation, these employers could face a lawsuit based on California law.

In most states, breaks are required by law. The employer has to, by law, enforce that employees take those breaks. If they fail to do so, it opens them up to very expensive lawsuits. I recall a decade or two back, The Gap has a massive settlement in the state of California over employees working through breaks.

15 minute break for 4-6 consecutive hours or a 30 minute break for more than 6 consecutive hours. If an employee works 8 or more consecutive hours, the employer must provide a 30-minute break and an additional 15 minute break for every additional 4 consecutive hours worked.

Yes, you do. In fact, your practice of combining employee rest periods with the lunch break violates California state law. California law states that the statutorily mandated rest breaks must, insofar as practicable, be taken in the middle of each work period.

If HR won't help you, go to your local labor board and report them. And if you do go to your local labor board, talk to a lawyer and let them know what's going on. Also, try and take your 30-minute breaks to show that you're following the law or at least trying to. Plus, it'll give you more evidence against your boss.

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An additional 30-minute unpaid meal break when working more than 12 hours in a day. A paid 10-minute rest period for every four hours worked.If you work at least 3.5 hours in a day, you are entitled to one rest break. If you work over 6 hours, you are entitled to a second rest break. Employers must provide a second meal break of no fewer than 30 minutes for all workdays on which an employee works more than 10 hours. Workers have a right to at least a 30minute meal break or each 6 hours worked in a calendar day. If you have worked less than 6 hours in a day, you can agree to forego your meal break. You can also agree to take your meal break while on duty. For every 4 hours of work, employees are entitled to a 10minute rest break. These rest breaks are paid and part of the workday.

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