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Work Laws With Breaks In Mecklenburg
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An eight-hour workday is a standardized work schedule in which an employee works for 8 hours per day. An employee who works an eight-hour workday will often work five days a week with two days off. This is sometimes known as a full-time job or working a 9-5, which means working 8 hours a day between 9 am and 5 pm.
It refers to "being at work", not "actively heads-down working on something". If you come in at 9am, do work, have lunch, make coffee, work more, suffer meetings, work, chat at the water cooler, work again, and leave at 5pm, you're working 9-5.
The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), the primary federal law governing labor standards, does not require employers to provide meal or rest breaks. Short breaks, typically lasting about 5 to 20 minutes, are common in workplaces.
Generally, no, there are no federal laws that limit how many hours you can work in a single day. (Though some state labor laws have maximum hour laws for minors.) The federal law that applies to all employees is the Fair Labor Standards Act, or FLSA. This law does not regulate how many hours you can work in a day.
The North Carolina Wage and Hour Act does not require mandatory rest breaks or meal breaks for employees 16 years of age or older.
There is no limit on the number of hours the adult employee may be required to work. The decision to work employees in eight-hour shifts, 12-hour shifts, 16-hour shifts, etc., is entirely up to the employer. The decision to call an employee back in to work on a scheduled day off is entirely up to the employer.
Under the Working Time Regulations, employees are legally entitled to a rest break once they have worked for six consecutive hours. Specifically, employees who work more than six hours in a day must be given a minimum 20-minute uninterrupted break.
If you work for more than 6 hours a day, you're entitled to an uninterrupted rest break of at least 20 minutes - for example a tea or lunch break. You must be allowed to take it during the day rather than at the beginning or end.
Since there is no law around providing meal breaks to adult employees, the ability to waive an employer-offered break would depend on company policy.
