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Subject:RE: Time keeping From:Bonnie Johnston <bonfire -at- full-moon -dot- com> To:barry -dot- kieffer -at- exgate -dot- tek -dot- com, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com Date:Wed, 16 Feb 2000 16:22:03 -0600
At 09:20 AM 2/16/00 -0800, you wrote:
>Bathroom breaks?! Smoke breaks?! Lunch breaks?!
>The company I work for allows us to take a single 3 minute break in the
>morning, and then a single 3 minute break in the afternoon. Besides the two
>3 minute breaks and a 15 minute lunch, we have to work from 7:00am until
>8:00pm nonstop.
Is this legal? I've never worked anywhere that didn't allow a 15 min.
break during every four-hour period worked.
Bon Johnston
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