I get a 15 minute break at 9:00 and 30 minutes lunch (unpaid) at 12:00. Work starts at 6:30 and ends at 15:00. Mon - Fri

Georgia, USA factory worker

Until September we had been 6:30 - 17:00, Mon - Thu, with 10 minutes break at 10:00, 30 minutes lunch (unpaid) at 12:00, and 10 minutes break at 14:00.

Fuck corporate meddling and I hope they really enjoy the crash in production. This is the 3rd time they have tried to force us into a 5 day schedule in the 8 years I've been employed there, both other times reverting back to 4 10s within a few months due to lost output.

No the 15min are separate.

Lunch is usually 30min-1hr (unpaid)

Then one or two 15min breaks (paid)

At least in retail that was my experience.

How it should work if companies cared about anything beyond the next quarterly report.

After my former employer's economic forecast did an abrupt sharp downturn, I went from being a highly desirable employee to extremely undesirable in the space of less than a week. Add to that a performance limiting on-the-job injury and being the highest paid person in my department.

Guess who was terminated the day before their stock and annual bonus was to be awarded.

it still shifts the power into the hands of the employer, like providing basic acceptable working conditions becomes a perk, when it's just something that should be universal and normalized.

Race to the bottom, bare minimum it is then

in reality an employer doing this struggles to keep reliable and quality staff.

The same could be said about PTO, but...

That's what prison labor is for. All those issues vanish. And it's by design.

That's more true in the more skilled the job is.

In entry level jobs where people are desperate, it gets a lot less favorable for the employee.

Really it's the same argument as a minimum wage

AI don't want no break