Full question:
I work a shift with the hours of 6am-2pm. My employer does allow me a unpaid 30min. lunch break. The half hour lunch break used to start at 11am-11:30am. My employer changed the hours to 10:30am-11am. I now no longer can order out lunch or run any where to get lunch because lunch time hours start at 11am for franchises. I looked up the labor management law and it says I have the right for a noon time meal between the hours of 11am-2pm is this the law?
- Category: Employment
- Date:
- State: New York
Answer:
In New York, labor laws provide specific meal break rights. According to New York Labor Law § 162:
- If you work a shift longer than six hours that extends over the noon meal period (11am-2pm), you are entitled to at least thirty minutes for a meal break during that time.
- The law recognizes the noon meal period as extending from 11am to 2pm.
- For shifts starting before 11am and ending after 7pm, an additional meal period of at least twenty minutes is required between 5pm and 7pm.
Therefore, your employer's change to a lunch break from 10:30am to 11am does not comply with the law, as it does not allow you a meal break during the designated noon meal period. You have the right to a meal break during the hours of 11am to 2pm.
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