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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 1342485" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>The 9.5 list is irrelevant.</p><p></p><p>If you start at 8:30 AM and take a 30 min lunch, you hit 9.5 hours at 6:30. If you take a 60 min lunch, you hit 9.5 hours at 7:00. Your paid day is what it is, the only difference between a 30 and a 60 minute lunch is what time you get home to your family at night.</p><p></p><p><strong>The forced hour lunch is nothing more than a tool that the company uses to get as many drivers as possible to work off of the clock</strong>. If we went back to the forced hour, the company would cut <em>more</em> routes out because they know that a significant percentage of the drivers would simply skip part of their lunch and work unpaid in order to avoid getting home at 9:00 at night, especially with the new 9.5 language. Do the math; if they can get 20 drivers on a 70-route center to skip even <em>half</em> of their forced hour lunch, that is 10 free hours of labor which is the equivalent of an <em>entire route</em> they can and will cut out. Allowing <em>the drivers</em> to choose between a 30 or 60 minute lunch takes away most of the motivation for working off of the clock and prevents the company from making dispatch decisions based upon a virtual guarantee of free labor.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 1342485, member: 14668"] The 9.5 list is irrelevant. If you start at 8:30 AM and take a 30 min lunch, you hit 9.5 hours at 6:30. If you take a 60 min lunch, you hit 9.5 hours at 7:00. Your paid day is what it is, the only difference between a 30 and a 60 minute lunch is what time you get home to your family at night. [B]The forced hour lunch is nothing more than a tool that the company uses to get as many drivers as possible to work off of the clock[/B]. If we went back to the forced hour, the company would cut [I]more[/I] routes out because they know that a significant percentage of the drivers would simply skip part of their lunch and work unpaid in order to avoid getting home at 9:00 at night, especially with the new 9.5 language. Do the math; if they can get 20 drivers on a 70-route center to skip even [I]half[/I] of their forced hour lunch, that is 10 free hours of labor which is the equivalent of an [I]entire route[/I] they can and will cut out. Allowing [I]the drivers[/I] to choose between a 30 or 60 minute lunch takes away most of the motivation for working off of the clock and prevents the company from making dispatch decisions based upon a virtual guarantee of free labor. [/QUOTE]
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