chargerlou
Well-Known Member
Even if they work less than 8 hours does anyone know if this is legal in state of Texas?
Even if they work less than 8 hours does anyone know if this is legal in state of Texas?
Haha, legal in "conservative" Texas?
They can probably make you do just about anything they please down there.
A full hour is nothing.
At face value I'd say that it's either entirely legal, or illegal but with an exploitable loophole in the verbiage of the law.
I'll try looking it up for ya.
I would almost testify in court that the People Manual (aka The Big Joke Book) states in policy that an employee is only REQUIRED to take an hour break if they either have gone or will go over 8 hours in a work day. There are always exceptions to that rule I know, but forcing everyone to take an hour when it's not necessary is just pouring lemon juice on the paper cut. Didn't they want to cut out half an hour a day? There's an easy 30 mins per courier on road over 6 hours. If I was in that predicament, it would probably take me 30 extra minutes to finish.
I'm sure the mindset of doing this is that the Courier will bust a** trying to get done in that shorter amount of time so they can get off and go home at the same time. If it were me I would stay an extra 30 minutes to get my work done in a safe manner.
I'm sure the mindset of doing this is that the Courier will bust a** trying to get done in that shorter amount of time so they can get off and go home at the same time. If it were me I would stay an extra 30 minutes to get my work done in a safe manner.
Our station was recently told we all had to take mandatory one hour breaks. Routes that didn't meet goal for the week would be required to take mandatory 1 hour and 20 minute breaks the next week. We didn't last two days the following week before they moved start times back 20 minutes (tomorrow will be 30 minutes). The results are as laughable as they are predictable -- late P1's, late SO, overtime over 15%, cartage agents to return outbound, etc.
We can take 30 minutes if we work between 5-8 hours. But, I wouldn't hesitate to run 3 cycles if forced to take an hour.We've been forced to take an hour regardless of hours for all FT for a couple of years now. Because of this, some routes that used to run their day in two cycles (the routes that are usually heavy on SOS), now have to run it in three. So now instead of getting 8 to 8-1/2 hours, they're getting 9 to 9-1/2 hrs. Brilliant idea!