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ThrillDr1 t1_irxalhw wrote

Why should the company pay you for your lunchtime?

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stuartroelke OP t1_irxbv5z wrote

Because it’s not free time, it’s time that employers encourage you to take in order to continue working effectively. Sandwiching—no pun intended—unpaid lunches between work hours takes away freedoms you would otherwise have if that time was given back in the form of shorter shifts.

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ThrillDr1 t1_irxqqul wrote

If you are free to leave the facility, it is your own time. No company should be paying for your free time.

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stuartroelke OP t1_irxyodp wrote

It’s not the same as free time. You are bound to the location where you work, and you are eating in order to remain an effective and healthy employee. It is an essential human right, but it is also essentially work time and aught to be compensated.

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endofthered01674 t1_irxhvix wrote

Get a job where your break is your own time.

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stuartroelke OP t1_irxyfln wrote

Not everyone has that option, and that’s why I’m asking for advice on advocating for change. I’m getting tired of writing that comment, and telling me to get a different job is not helpful.

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endofthered01674 t1_irxzx3m wrote

If your employer is paying you, they're going to expect something out of you. You're not forced to stay where you are. Find somewhere that will give you what you want. I could leave for an hour every day on my lunch break if I felt like it.

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stuartroelke OP t1_iry3521 wrote

I keep saying this, but getting a different job isn’t always an option. It’s also not an effective strategy for change.

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katieleehaw t1_irxe2sf wrote

Because you have to be there all day and humans require breaks and food?

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ThrillDr1 t1_iryirv5 wrote

Does your employer monitor and ascertain if you have eaten, how much you have eaten, whether it is healthy or not? Of course they don't. You are given a break, they call it lunch, but you are free to do what you want during it.

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