Say goodbye to breaks and lunch when working > 6 hours a day! Kentucky says just let the feds set the rules.
Republicans care about the Working Class!
eliminating work break rights rings
I don’t know why it took me three read-throughs to understand that.
Pennsylvania is the same. Employers are not legally required to give breaks during the work day but I’ve never worked or heard of anyone working that didn’t get a break.
Then it’s just a matter of time
Guy who wrote this bill owns a lawncare company. This needs to be struck down and him removed from office.
House Bill 500 would repeal current state legislation that requires employers to allow workers a lunch break for every three to five hours of work completed. The bill, if it becomes law, would require employers to pay workers while they are eating instead of giving them a break.
I don’t get it, it is a paid lunch break or eat while you work? Or are those considered the same thing?
It sounds like lunch may be paid, but the time isn’t mandated. Waiting for a new lot to roll in? Scarf down a sandwich in 7 minutes, get paid for it, and get yer arse back on the line, peasant. You can eat your chips while bolting together widgets. (I have no idea, just a guess.)
I got my first job at a pizza place at the age of 15. On my first day, the owner really stressed to me that the law says i had to have breaks, but that they were from laws written for factory workers who couldn’t leave their post to go to the bathroom any time, so it’s okay if they don’t follow exact timelines for my breaks because i could use the bathroom outside of the break time.
Fuck that guy.
Does this festering, cancerous tumor of a website calling itself Newsweek name the bill anywhere so I can read it?
As to lunch, I gave up on eating lunch years ago. I started timing it. Got it down to eleven minutes and still couldn’t inhale food in peace without some urgent fucking thing coming up, so I abandoned the practice.
I used to get shit on for eating lunch.
Then I got shit on for not eating lunch.
Still get shit on for doing too many hours, unless I shorten my days and get shit on for not doing enough hours.
I have also been shit on for taking vacation, then shit on for not taking vacation.
There have even been days when I’ve been on the verge of pissing myself because the act of trying to get from my desk to the restroom is fraught with perilous urgencies that need attending to right the fuck now. (Nothing in my line of work needs that immediacy. I’m not an EMT for fucks sake)
There is no correct way for me to do anything.
I’m so, so tired and am not old enough or wealthy enough to say fuck this shit, and I’m down to one marketable skill where the conditions mentioned above will be the same anywhere I go.
Nonetheless, I assume this bill is for hourly wage workers, in which case I say fuck the man, eat your lunch.
Anyone else have a stroke trying to make sense of the title?
And the body of the article too.
The bill would also would not have to pay minimum wage…
The bill would not would have to not eliminate paying minimum wage.
watch the kdp absolutely fail to make an issue of this this year and during the general.
shit like this is why I am not a registered kentucky democrat.
Because republicans know they can do litterally anything and still get voted in as long as they shout “BUT THE WOKE” everyone now and then.
But the white left told me the democrats are just as bad on labor!
I feel like I spent to much time in the sun today…
Why is nobody talking about this?
It would also eliminate the need to pay time and a half overtime on the seventh consecutive day of work for people working at least 40 hours a week,
Am I missing something here. Do these people get paid overtime if they work 7 days in a row, period, as long as they work 40 hours a week? Or does this mean if you work over 40 hours and 7 days in a row, you do not get your overtime pay for the 7th day, even if that puts you over 40 hours?
While i understand many people dont work 7 days in a row, I’m unclear as to why eliminating overtime pay, in any capacity, isn’t a bigger part of this story. I understand breaks are important and it’s not right to take that away, for various reasons, but to eliminate any form of overtime pay is also a big WTF. Idk, this isn’t a thing in my state
And then there’s this:
The bill, if it becomes law, would require employers to pay workers while they are eating instead of giving them a break.
Are they supposed to eat their sandwich while working? The break is only as long as the employee is actively eating? If there’s no break, how are they eating, at all?
Idk. Not like its unusual for me to be dense, but these things really make no sense to me.
As to that second point, if it means that the employer has to pay during a lunch break (which is how it should be), then I’m all for it.
The 8 hrs working plus unpaid lunch way we do it is bullshit.
Y’all are reading into that too much. We have a similar clause in Texas, which is virtually our only protection in regards to breaks. To simplify: they are saying that if the employee is eating AND working, then you have to pay them. I’m not sure how they are wording it in Kentucky but here it’s along the lines of “you don’t have to give the peasants a break, but if you do and it is unpaid then it is illegal to request that they work”.
It sounds stupid because they are literally saying “if you don’t pay them they can’t be forced to work”, but I’m really glad that protection is there or guarantee it would be abused even more than it likely already is.
The practical effect is everyone just gets an unpaid lunch because asking people to work 8 hours with no break is ridiculous.
Yeah i always thought that was stupid. If thats what it means, I wonder if that means it will count towards the 8 hours you actually work? I wonder if companies would want to pay people for the extra hour vs losing an hour of productivity.
Trading off breaks for going home an hour “early” actually sounds like an interesting proposition for office workers, for people that work outside or in a factory, not so much.
I think it’s saying: you don’t have to give your employees a lunch break, but if you do you have to pay them while they’re on break. To me it sounds like a way to convince all employers in the state to not give lunch breaks since they have to now pay employees during lunch.
Sorry boss, I have to go take another long shit.
If you’re not concerned about losing your job then you’d just quit once your boss takes away your lunch break.
If you are concerned about losing your job (in debt, little savings, living paycheck to paycheck) you can’t risk playing games like this either. That’s why laws that protect employees are important: to prevent employers from taking advantage of the desperate.
At some point, people need to revolt. This is ridiculous.
The guy who made this bill needs to be made made example of. Tarred and feathered would be the gentlest reaction
They are revolting, FOR this… With every GOP vote they prove this is what they want…
I would say this is revolting.
What assholes they are in the Kentucky government.
They’re not special in that regard when it comes to the South.
And how many hours a day do these cunts work?
Hours are for poors.
The asshole who put forth the bill owns a landscaping company. His motivation is pretty clear.
Jesus fucking christ.
Thankfully the opposition asked him directly about it during the committee. His response should be concerning for the backers of the Bill.
WONT SOMEONE THINK OF THE SHRUBBERIES!!!
I emailed my representative here in KY about this and his response was, “I don’t get lunch most days during Session.” JFC How about writing a bill to ensure representatives are allowed to take a lunch break, instead of supporting one that takes away everyone else’s right to one? What an asshole. By the way, his name is Daniel Fister, in case any other people stuck in this hellhole state want to look up his email address and let him know how you feel about how much of a twat he is.
In even-numbered years, sessions may not last more than 60 legislative days, and cannot extend beyond April 15. In odd-numbered years, sessions may not last more than 30 legislative days, and cannot extend beyond March 30.
Wow the guy works a whole 30-60 days per year 🙄
I emailed my representative here in KY about this and his response was, “I don’t get lunch most days during Session.”
Ask him how many bags of mulch, bags of cement mix, or flats of shingles he moves in an average day during session.
I emailed my representative here in KY about this and his response was, “I don’t get lunch most days during Session.”
You’re also not doing physical labor out in the heat of the day.
Just pull yourself up by your bootstrap in the morning and get the work done before the sun is up, sissy.
But don’t you dare drilling that wall before i woke up and enjoyed my breakfast!
You should reply that in the next election you’ll be voting for him to have a lot more free time.
This is the response you come up with 2 weeks later while in the shower.
Thank goodness for Lemmy then 😁
the one quick fix to this is to change the last day to run for office to the day after the general assembly session ends. I never was surprised when the really noxious evil bills showed up in committee when it was no longer possible for those people to lose their seats.
also I bet they’re running unopposed. I really hate the kentucky democratic party. the wa6 they operate it’s as though they think the republicans are doing a great job it would be a great inconvenience if they challenged them. it’s been that way since I’ve been voting.
That motherfucker needs to get his ass kicked on live TV.
