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Article 54 - Meal Period or Why does UPS do this?
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<blockquote data-quote="7785761" data-source="post: 144610"><p>They probably do it because most people don’t want to sit around for an hour for “lunch” – particularly when you’re done eating within 15 or 20 minutes. Makes the day drag, IMO.</p><p></p><p>Here you’ll take all your breaks and meal periods and you’ll take them at the proper times or you’ll be disciplined.</p><p></p><p>Yes, people have been written up, people have been suspended, and a few that couldn’t quite figure things out have been fired for not taking their breaks. No, your union didn’t get them reinstated.</p><p></p><p>That’s more a function of state law – and lawsuits by Teamsters claiming they were “prevented” from taking breaks - than anything else in our case.</p><p></p><p>My understanding is that it would be nationwide policy by now.</p><p></p><p>No, there won’t be additional drivers added and no, you don’t have any mechanism by which you can skip breaks to get off early. You have to get off early for some function you better burn a vacation or personal day or something.</p><p></p><p>Yes, most drivers hate it but that’s how it is whether they hate it or not.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="7785761, post: 144610"] They probably do it because most people don’t want to sit around for an hour for “lunch” – particularly when you’re done eating within 15 or 20 minutes. Makes the day drag, IMO. Here you’ll take all your breaks and meal periods and you’ll take them at the proper times or you’ll be disciplined. Yes, people have been written up, people have been suspended, and a few that couldn’t quite figure things out have been fired for not taking their breaks. No, your union didn’t get them reinstated. That’s more a function of state law – and lawsuits by Teamsters claiming they were “prevented” from taking breaks - than anything else in our case. My understanding is that it would be nationwide policy by now. No, there won’t be additional drivers added and no, you don’t have any mechanism by which you can skip breaks to get off early. You have to get off early for some function you better burn a vacation or personal day or something. Yes, most drivers hate it but that’s how it is whether they hate it or not. [/QUOTE]
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