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Federal law in the US requires a half hour unpaid lunch break for full time employees. Why does this translate sometimes into a forced hour long unpaid lunch break? I eat in about 10 minutes and I'd like to spend more time with my family. Do employers just plan for chatty lazy assholes to need an hour for lunch, and make the rest of us pay for it?

Federal law in the US requires a half hour unpaid lunch break for full time employees. Why does this translate sometimes into a forced hour long unpaid lunch break? I eat in about 10 minutes and I'd like to spend more time with my family. Do employers just plan for chatty lazy assholes to need an hour for lunch, and make the rest of us pay for it?

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some jobs are more strenuous, not to mention if your doing 3 and 1 rotations (21 days work 7 days break) it gets really fatiguing if dont take breaks during your stint. now think about how businesses abuse employees and government has to step in to stop said abuses, it doesnt make a very efficient setup but it does make some sense