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Work Labor Law For Breaks In Phoenix
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There are no state-imposed scheduling notice requirements in Arizona. Employers are not required by law to provide advance notice of work schedules or changes unless it is specified in an employment contract or company policy.
There is no minimum shift requirement or minimum hour requirement for part-time or full-time employees. The 4-hour rule refers to minimum compensation in certain circumstances. These include on-call or scheduled-to-work employees who receive inadequate notice that they do not have any work for their shift.
An employer shall allow each employee to take at least one ten minute rest period during every four hours of labor performed. The employer shall not deduct any wages from the employee for the period of time that the employee is participating in a rest period.
There is no federal law or Arizona state law that says employers must provide breaks and lunches. There are mandatory break and lunch period laws in some other states, but not Arizona.
Any employee working for more than 10 hours in a single shift is entitled to take 2 meal breaks comprising 30 minutes each. In such cases, the employer must provide the second meal break no later than at the end of the 10th hour.
In most states, breaks are required by law. The employer has to, by law, enforce that employees take those breaks. If they fail to do so, it opens them up to very expensive lawsuits. I recall a decade or two back, The Gap has a massive settlement in the state of California over employees working through breaks.
An employer shall allow each employee to take at least one thirty minute meal break during every continuous eight hours of labor performed. B. An employer shall allow each employee to take at least one ten minute rest period during every four hours of labor performed.
There is no federal law or Arizona state law that says employers must provide breaks and lunches. There are mandatory break and lunch period laws in some other states, but not Arizona.
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.