It has been noticed from the last few weeks that quite a few of you have been extending your lunch breaks, from 1 hour provided by company policy to an hour and half or more. This memorandum is to remind everyone of our lunch break policy, and ask you all to follow to it. Lunch break for employees working full time is mandatory by law in all provinces, and even when not mandated, employers commonly provide them as a matter of common sense, to maintain the workplace environment motivated, efficient and fair. The employee manual that every one of you have clearly states our lunch break policies, and both company policy and the provincial requirement regarding the meal break are posted on the lunchroom wall. As a reminder, all of you working
7.5 hour a day is entitled to 1 hour lunch break and two 15 minutes refreshment break (one before lunch break and second after lunch break). The first 15 minute break should be taken at least an hour before your lunch break and second 15 minute break should be taken an hour before your off time. There are some of the activities you can do in your break time rather than doing them during work day like operating Facebook account, talking with friends and relatives over the phone, gossiping with co-workers regarding issues apart from work. I understand that once in a while if someone will run over the break time for few minutes provide by the company policy. Try not to give it a chance to wind up frequent! I greatly prefer NOT to have to introduce time clocks, time logs, or other similar burdens on you. Every one of you put out an incredible effort, and you have made this organization what it is today. Therefore, I hope that this word to the wise will be sufficient. Enjoy your break and make it advantageous for you, however watch out for the clock, with the goal that we can keep up the current adaptable and casual policy.
This article implicates that five hourly non-exempt restaurant’s employees who worked ten hours before receiving a meal period and was made to work during their lunch period (Sayas, 2014). Thus, the workers did not get a rest break and demanded to work off the clock without pay (Sayas, 2014). This infraction is in violation of the Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division under the minimum paid rest period. Moreover, the employees’ cases were settled out of court for $56.5 million (Sayas,
French students get 1 ½-2 hour lunch breaks, and many countries including France have off-campus lunch programs, where they can go home or to a restaurant for lunch. Why can’t Oak Creek High School have off-campus lunch? By the time students are in high school, they should be responsible and trusted to have off-campus lunch privileges.
Most of my classmates and I have anticipated of the March Break being two weeks, like the Winter Break. A lot of students were complaining about the short March Break, Shlok and Kabishan were some of these students. Students were expecting the March Break to have the same time durations as the Winter Break, not just because they both are called breaks, it’s because students need this time to relax. The classmates that I’ve encountered have hoped the March Break to be two weeks. This is mostly because of the influence that the Winter Break has given the students. After having the relaxing Winter Break, students don’t even consider the March Break as break. They change how the March Break is looked as a break compared to the Winter Break, so it would be like from an enjoyable March Break to just couple of days off school. If teachers are willing to give up a week for March Break they might as well...
Every student in all grades were able to leave during the time a scheduled class did not occupy. (Saslow, Linda. “Schools split on “open campus” NYtimes.com). Open campus lunch is the allowance of high school students to leave off the premises to a local restaurant for the duration of lunch. School districts in America have opposed open campus lunch benefits due to common knowledge and concern for potential student endangerment. A reason why schools should change educational environment would be to accommodate what students’ need to create comfortable working conditions. Old school methods included the repetitive process of helping students through daily material every day of the week with one break. Off campus school lunch was an unknown factor to high schools back
Lunch time is a time to take a break from the day and recharge for the rest of the day. In elementary schools it is also a time to meet up with your friends and socialize. Lunch time is not only time to eat. It is important for the mental, social, and emotional health of the children as well. Children need them chance to unwind and destress, which is promoted by socializing with friends. “Lunch should be an enjoyable part of the school day for students, offering a break from classroom work and a place to relax, socialize, and become nourished.”("The Cafeteria: Creating a Positive Mealtime Experience", 2013) Lunch time should be done in a setting where
“More than a third of the county's children are overweight or obese.”(Gustin, 1). As shocking as this is, it's true. One of the big reasons that children and teens are overweight is because of the foods that they eat. They are fed these fattening and unhealthy foods by the school system. Their futures can be changed if we change our choices. Having more nutritious lunches can have a positive impact on the health of American teens.
The acronym TGIF (Thank God It’s Friday) may soon lose its popularity, being replaced by TGIT (Thank God It’s Thursday). The change is due to a growing popularity of four-day workweeks which have become the standard for many companies and municipalities. The benefits of the four-day workweek appear to extend far beyond the organization to the employee and society in general. In an effort to illustrate this point, the current investigation considers the benefits and drawbacks of four-day workweeks, examining the issue from the perspective of the organization, employer, and society. Through a careful review of viewpoints from each stakeholder it will be possible to demonstrate the value of the four-day workweek and what recommendations should be made to make TGIT the standard over TGIF.
We should not have longer school lunches. Longer school lunches has a great impact on everyone in school, it makes this issue worse. Students need what is best for them, which they already have. Short school lunches helps improve learning skills and lets students comprehend better. Our lunches are good as they are right now. We should not allow students to leave during school lunch.
Across the blue seas of the Atlantic, and even here in America, companies and governments have already begun to experiment with and implement the shorter working week for numerous of its working citizens and employees. Many European countries, including Sweden, Britain, France, the Netherlands, and Germany have already taken several steps toward adopting a smarter and more balanced version of the standard, 40 to 50 hour work week (Coote). With these new adjustments, the European leaders hope to encourage good working habits and growth among its staffers. Although several governments in Europe and other parts of the world have already started instituting the shorter work week, many American companies are beginning to follow the trail in the sand. Among these companies include the online technology school Treehouse, the service company KPMG, and a web application company called Basecamp (Sahadi). In a recent interview with the Treehouse Company CEO Ryan Carson, Ryan revealed that after implementing a shorter, more flexible working week for him and his employees, he saw a number of profound effects that the change had on his business and its employed workers. When asked for a reason as to why he began and continues the daring concept, Ryan stated that “The quality of the work, I believe, is higher. Thirty-two hours of higher quality work is better than 40 hours of lower quality work.” To acknowledge the success of businesses that have adopted the shorter working week in our own society, such as the Treehouse Company, is to take steps toward establishing a higher and healthier precedent that all of America’s current and future employers can follow. It is with these examples that the Magna Carta of the weekly working period can be rewritten to support an increase in flexibility, accessibility, and
Are your department employees tired, unfocused, and without motivation by the middle of the afternoon? Are their too many accidents in the lab? I have the perfect solution! Allow department employees to take breaks throughout the workday. In the following pages I will show why the brain needs downtime and how breaks allow employees to be more productive.
Next, us big kids need longer breaks when we do get one because we have a 90-Minute period classes.
To begin with, a small break would provide time to use the bathroom and socialize with friends. Teachers only avow you to have five hall passes to use the bathroom in nine weeks. When you run out of hall passes and you need to use the bathroom it is silent lunch every time you go without a pass. Next, ninety minute classes with no socialization can get very boring, and cause people to act up
Do you think we should have breaks? Short breaks would be good because, you can be social with friends, you can use the restroom when you need to, the behavior would be good.
Ultimately times change, this experience no longer exists for school-age children. For example, walk into any school during lunchtime you will not hear the chatter of children, you will not see the exercise of socialization. In many instances, the magical playground no longer exists. Conversely, students are hastily rushed through lunchtime, sanctioned in alphabetical sequence, not permitted the luxury of communicating with or interacting with friends. Furthermore, to some Teachers, lunch duty has
So instead of creating a culture where everyone eats lunch at their desks, encourage your employees to take long lunches so they can recharge their batteries.