Workers must receive pay for toil during meal breaks

By June Watanabe

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Apr 24, 2012

~~<p>Question: Can you look into how the company I work for is treating employees wrong? We have to punch in and out of work, and they fingerprint us. But then they dock us a half-hour for lunch, when we don’t have time for lunch.</p>
<p>Answer: It may surprise some people that there is no law requiring employers to give meal or other breaks, except in specific cases or because of union contracts.                    </p>
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Question: Can you look into how the company I work for is treating employees wrong? We have to punch in and out of work, and they fingerprint us. But then they dock us a half-hour for lunch, when we don’t have time for lunch.

Answer: It may surprise some people that there is no law requiring employers to give meal or other breaks, except in specific cases or because of union contracts. Login for more...