MEAL BREAK

• Meal Periods


  Employers must give employees not less than 60 minutes time-off for their regular meals
• Meal break is not compensable hours worked
• If employee is required to work while eating

  He should be compensated
• Meal Periods

  Meal break could be shortened to 20 minutes if:

  1.Employees perform non-manual or fewer physical tasks

  2. The business operates 16 hours daily

  3. Employees work during actual or imminent emergencies, or they need to fix any machine, equipment, or installation

  4. Workers need to preserve perishable goods
• Meal break is not compensable hours worked
• If the employee is required to work while eating


  He should be compensated therefor
• Time-off for regular meal

  Every employer is required to give his employees, regardless of sex, not less than one (1) hour (or 60 minutes)
• What is the rule on time-off for regular meal?

  Every employer is required to give his employees, regardless of sex, not less than one (1) hour (or 60 minutes)

  time-off for regular meals