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A lunch or other meal period is an approved period of time in a nonpay and nonwork status that interrupts a basic workday or a period of overtime work for the purpose of permitting employees to eat or engage in permitted personal activities. (See also Interruptions, below.)
Federal law does not require lunch or coffee breaks. However, when employers do offer short breaks (usually lasting about 5 to 20 minutes), federal law considers the breaks as compensable work hours that would be included in the sum of hours worked during the workweek and considered in determining if overtime was worked.
1 Ιαν 2023 · Meal period is required where employees are not afforded necessary breaks and/or permitted to eat lunch while working. Guam ½ hour, after 5 hours, except when workday will be completed in 6 hours or less and there is mutual employer/employee consent to waive meal period.
We provide Governmentwide leadership on Federal work scheduling policies and programs. We develop and maintain Governmentwide regulations and policies on the administration of work schedules, including the basic 40-hour workweek, holidays, and flexible and compressed work schedules.
A basic workweek is the officially prescribed days and hours during which a full-time employee is entitled to basic pay. The basic work week for all full-time employees in the Department is 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, including a daily non-compensable lunch period of 30 minutes.
22 Μαΐ 2024 · Rest and lunch breaks are covered by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL). Referred to as break and meal periods by the DOL, federal law does not require them. The DOL does, however, provide information about whether companies must pay employees for those breaks if they are provided.
If you’re a federal employee concerned about lunch break rules and covered by a union, it’s a good time to familiarize yourself with your master agreement. The document will tell you everything you ever wanted to know about pay, leave, and breaks.
