8.5/day hours required for Maxiflex users, could 1/2 lunch be done at home?

[Anonymous]

This is only for the real Feds in government: if you are on MaxiFlex and are doing the 5/8 plan, what do you think about doing 1/2 hour lunch at "home" and leaving 1/2 hour early? [This assumes you are in for the core hours.]

[Anonymous]

I thought we had to take the unpaid lunch during the day and could not put it at the end of the day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is only for the real Feds in government: if you are on MaxiFlex and are doing the 5/8 plan, what do you think about doing 1/2 hour lunch at "home" and leaving 1/2 hour early? [This assumes you are in for the core hours.]

how do you leave early if already home?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought we had to take the unpaid lunch during the day and could not put it at the end of the day.

This is the right answer.

[Anonymous]

No allowed and technically you must take a 1/2 hour break/lunch after 5 hours at work. It can be less than 5 hours but it can't be more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No allowed and technically you must take a 1/2 hour break/lunch after 5 hours at work. It can be less than 5 hours but it can't be more.

Is this a "requirement" because many people may not be hungry within 5 or 6 or even 7 hours of their start.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No allowed and technically you must take a 1/2 hour break/lunch after 5 hours at work. It can be less than 5 hours but it can't be more.

This one must vary by agency because for us it is 6 hours.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No allowed and technically you must take a 1/2 hour break/lunch after 5 hours at work. It can be less than 5 hours but it can't be more.

Is this a "requirement" because many people may not be hungry within 5 or 6 or even 7 hours of their start.

Yes. You aren’t required to eat.

Most of us don’t get a lunch break but the law is we are supposed to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No allowed and technically you must take a 1/2 hour break/lunch after 5 hours at work. It can be less than 5 hours but it can't be more.

This one must vary by agency because for us it is 6 hours.

I’m not sure I’ve ever heard a specific hour requirement at our agency, but we definitely have to take the 30 minutes during the day and can’t take it at the end of the day to only be 8 hours in the offfice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No allowed and technically you must take a 1/2 hour break/lunch after 5 hours at work. It can be less than 5 hours but it can't be more.

This one must vary by agency because for us it is 6 hours.

It probably varies by union.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No allowed and technically you must take a 1/2 hour break/lunch after 5 hours at work. It can be less than 5 hours but it can't be more.

This one must vary by agency because for us it is 6 hours.

It probably varies by union.

PP here and you're right it's in our CBA. If we take 1:45 minutes leave on an 8 hour day we need to do the lunch but if we take 2 hours off we don't.

[Anonymous]

What if you're not union eligible?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What if you're not union eligible?

PP said it varies by union but really it just varies by agency. If you had different lunch break rules for bargaining and non-bargaining unit, you would know.

[Anonymous]

I think union employees are probably more subject to this than non-union employees, especially if your agency does not have a standard "lunch policy" response. I wouldn't ask the question if it's not already written down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What if you're not union eligible?

PP said it varies by union but really it just varies by agency. If you had different lunch break rules for bargaining and non-bargaining unit, you would know.

+1. About a 0 chance of the agency giving NBUs a better deal than the BUs.