• cosmicrookie@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Unions here require you to take 30 minute lunch breaks plus a 15 minute break between that and end of shift (for the regular 8 hour shifts)

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        5 months ago

        I have never had that long of a break, even in grade school my lunch was 15-20min including standing in line to and from the cafeteria

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        Finland here. Legally it’s supposed to be at least 30 if not 45 min, and we’ve laws about overtime and what have you but I never got them in a single place of work and somehow the bosses just kept getting away with it.

        Even somewhat large companies.

        I have never worked a job in my life that I was actually afforded the protections and rights that the law required. Some I left, some just wouldn’t change.

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        That’s not true, french law doesn’t guarantee a break specifically for lunch. It guarantees a break for an amount of time wich depends on the duration of the workday, usually 20 minutes. Source ( in french)

        I’ve been working temp jobs for the past 10 years so I worked for dozens of companies and of the top of my head I can only remember 2 which gave me proper lunch breaks lasting more than 30 minutes.