Let’s get your opinion on this: would you push back like she did? Here’s the situation. Her boss sent her home for taking her 30-min unpaid lunch that was literally in her contract/hiring notes. While no federal law requires lunch breaks, some states require employers to provide one (30 min unpaid, fully off-duty) for 6+ hr shifts. You can’t just force ‘eat at your desk while working’—that doesn’t count. Now, if her contract is indeed legally binding, the boss can’t magically delete it. What are your thoughts on this?

@HistorianUSA1 Can someone explain to me? What’s the difference between compensation and payment? She says lunches are part of her compensation, but she needs to be clocked out, and are unpaid. So how is that compensation?

@Se_psybastian @HistorianUSA1 It is not complensation. The lunch break is uncompensated.