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  2. United States labor law - Wikipedia

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    Furthermore, there is no federal or state law on limits to the length of the working week. Instead, the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 §207 creates a financial disincentive to longer working hours. Under the heading "Maximum hours", §207 states that time and a half pay must be given to employees working more than 40 hours in a week. [116]

  3. Break (work) - Wikipedia

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    Under the Working Hours Act, workers who work for 6 or more hours a day are entitled to a break of 1 hour at minimum. A worker can make an agreement with their employer to take a shorter break, but the break cannot be shorter than 30 minutes. Workers are free to leave their workplaces during their breaks. Workers working for more than 10 hours ...

  4. Could Kentucky workers lose lunch breaks? Bill repealing ...

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    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 ...

  5. Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 - Wikipedia

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    The bill would have amended the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA) to increase the federal minimum wage for employees to $10.10 per hour over the course of a two-year period. [78] The bill was strongly supported by President Barack Obama and many of the Democratic senators, but strongly opposed by Republicans in the Senate and House.

  6. Enjoy lunch breaks? How you could lose rest benefits if KY ...

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    A Kentucky House of Representatives committee is advancing KY HB 500. What you need to know about potential end of employee lunch and rest breaks.

  7. Bernie Sanders pushes bill to reduce the 40-hour work ... - AOL

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    The bill, titled the “Thirty-Two Hour Work Week Act,” would reduce the standard workweek from 40 to 32 hours over the span of four years, including lowering the maximum hours required for ...

  8. Working time - Wikipedia

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    Brazil has a 44-hour work week, normally 8 hours per day and 4 hours on Saturday or 8.8 hours per day. Jobs with no meal breaks or on-duty meal breaks are 6 hours per day. Public servants work 40 hours per week. Lunch breaks are one hour and are not usually counted as work. A typical work schedule is 8:00 or 9:00–12:00, 13:00–18:00.

  9. No more mandated lunch breaks? Bill would remove ... - AOL

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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.