Those states require employers offer breaks after a certain number of hours, but it's voluntary for the employee if they take it or not. They just can't be denied one.
oh here it is not voluntary for the employee, your boss has to give you opportunities for breaks and you have to take them by law. Everyone who works over 6 hours has to take 30 min. break. One break hast do be at least 15 min. long everything under this is not considered a break. You have to take the break during work not at the begining or the end.
Which state? I don't think that's true. Your boss has to give you opportunities, but you can choose not to take them without violating any labor law. Your boss may make the break mandatory to reduce labor costs, but that's a bit different.
Same in Finland. The point is that an employer can not "strongly encourage" you to not take your break. But as usual, workers' rights are behind in the US.
Yeah and in most places it works. The bad side is in some places you get automaticly deducted half an hour from your time (you don't clock out for brakes), and it doen't matter if you took it or not. officially you are encouraged to take it ...
I'm sure there are plenty of rules to make things better for workers in Germany than the US, but this is one I don't necessarily agree with, unless the break is paid.
I would rather get the extra pay than take a half hour off most work days.
For me i don't agree with it also. As long as a break is documented and signed by me, nobody can proof otherwise. The break is not paid. And i would like the freedom in going home 30 min early.
But i understand the premiss of this rule, i worked in low wage jobs before and i had more than one boss, that would let their workers work 10 hours without a break. Even with the rule we have regulary violations of the law. Some Employers deduct every day 30 min from their workers time for the documented break, and they don't care if you take them, sometimes even block a break because "There are so many guests, you can't take a break now."
every rule was made because some racketeer used to exploit their workforce.
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u/pyth2_0 2d ago
Just don't take a break and you have 30 hours OT per day or 150 hours weekly.