Legal Question in Employment Law in Wisconsin

Paid lunch

If I owe a small business and I have 5 employee's can they work through their lunch without me getting in any kind of labor law trouble.


Asked on 9/07/07, 4:11 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Nilesh Patel Mahadev Law Group, LLC

Re: Paid lunch

This is a tricky question. It depends really on whether your employees count as exempt or non-exempt from overtime laws. If they are non-exempt, meaning entitled to overtime, then the time they spend working during a lunch will count towards any hours worked which requires them to be paid. In addition, those hours will also count towards hitting the overtime requirement.

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Answered on 9/11/07, 12:10 pm


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