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To: Squantos

You know there should be more than just video. What about her time cards? Should she have not clocked out for breaks? We always had too. Some employers have to keep time cards for about 5 years. Others I don’t know.


84 posted on 04/08/2012 3:17:12 PM PDT by Morgana (I only come here to see what happens next. It normally does.)
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To: Morgana
Here's the deal on breaks ~ 5 to 20 minute breaks, identified by management as breaks, are compensable. Folks don't have to clock out or in for an official employer's break.

The FLSA covers that ~ if there's a break. If there's no break, lunch doesn't count as a break.

State laws regulate breaks otherwise except OSHA regulates the use of the toilets as well as bowel movements. They wrote a memo on the matter grudgingly, but finally someone had to do it. It says, in general, folks take different amounts of time to use the toilet and management doesn't have the power to change that amount of time ~ which varies by individuals, and BTW, keep the toilets clean!

If you have ever been required to clock out for an official company break you can sue them for lots of money and make their lives miserable.

That doesn't mean you had to be given a break anyway ~ as a matter of labor law, but as OSHA has reminded us, as a matter of occupational safety (gotta' keep those floors clean and nice, no surprise slick spots eh), you do get to go to the toilet to do whatever it is you do in there.

There is a difference between LABOR LAW and OHSA ~ although they sometimes use the same words.

87 posted on 04/08/2012 6:48:33 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Morgana

Don’t think the baker will be posting those for us to view ....:o)

Not all employers require one to checkout on the time cards ... When they go on break. But some do as you stated.

Stay safe....


88 posted on 04/08/2012 7:04:41 PM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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