Posts tagged meals.
The 3rd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has ruled that employees who receive the "predominant benefit" of a meal break are not entitled to have the break treated as FLSA worktime.
Established meal periods of less than 30 minutes are not necessarily worktime under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act.
Breaks, Hours Worked, Meals, TimekeepingTags: breaks, meals, meal periods, lunch, 30 minutes, half-hour
An increasing number of federal Fair Labor Standards Act lawsuits and U.S. Labor Department investigations include claims based upon the employer's automatically deducting meal periods from non-exempt employees' recorded worktimes.
Breaks, Hours Worked, Meals, Recordkeeping, TimekeepingTags: meals, meal, lunch, automatic, timekeeping, hours worked, breaks