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In the UK, workers are legally entitled to at least a 20 minute break for every six hours they work, and generally contracts and an employee handbook can offer more. If this was a British firm, Brenda would be feeling the wrath of HR if they caught wind of this.
This also runs afoul of US labor laws. Every 8 hour shift must be given at least a 30 minute unpaid lunch break. The difference is white collar hours have no tracking mechanism, so therefore no great enforcement mechanism. In an hourly role your supervisor will ensure that whatever you do, you don't punch in until after your 30 minutes are up.
It wasn't uncommon for people to be salaried so they could pay less than they would hourly making people work up to 70 hours a week. A lot of these slaves are called analysts in the us white collar world.
Brenda
I definitely recommend all workers check the break allowance in their employee handbook. My company's policy is I get a one hour break, half of which is paid. When I got hired, I was told by the boss that I only get half an hour and "we've never paid for breaks." Unfortunately for him, I worked for this company before and still had a copy of the handbook so I knew what I was entitled to. Later on, the deputy outright accused me of fraud for taking my full hour. I showed her the handbook, she tried to pretend I was misunderstanding it. I told her what it says here lines up with the rota software. She said, well from now on, you need to tell me if you're going to take the full hour. I said it's already accounted for on the software. She said she'll "overlook it (my alleged fraud) this time." Later she checked the software and said I was right. Yeah, next time you want to accuse me of fraud, get your facts straight first.
My colleagues have been getting underpaid for years. I've tried to get them to join a union to do collective action for backpay, but none of them seem to care and carry on doing unpaid overtime. What can you do?