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The bill would repeal Kentucky’s requirement that employers provide at least a 10 minute “rest break” to employees for each four hours of work.
The bill has drawn the opposition of organized labor groups and others, including an employment law attorney. Federal law does not require employers to offer lunch or rest breaks, and Pratt said ...
A break at work (or work-break) is a period of time during a shift in which an employee is allowed to take time off from their job. It is a type of downtime . There are different types of breaks, and depending on the length and the employer's policies, the break may or may not be paid.
Department of Labor poster notifying employees of rights under the Fair Labor Standards Act. The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 29 U.S.C. § 203 [1] (FLSA) is a United States labor law that creates the right to a minimum wage, and "time-and-a-half" overtime pay when people work over forty hours a week.
Over the 20th century, federal law created minimum social and economic rights, and encouraged state laws to go beyond the minimum to favor employees. [4] The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 requires a federal minimum wage , currently $7.25 but higher in 29 states and D.C., and discourages working weeks over 40 hours through time-and-a-half ...
In today's fast-paced work environment, lunch breaks are quickly becoming a thing of the past for many employees. At least that's what a new study from researchers at ezCater, a food-tech company ...
The first enforceable hours' law in the United States was in 1874 when Massachusetts enacted a law which limited the amount of time that women and children could work each week. [2] This limit was set at sixty hours per week. Similar laws were later adopted by about half of the country's states.
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