Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Gawd. Federal agencies really worry about such things? Do they wipe your nose, too?
They worry about it because no one, white or blue collar, is paid for the required lunch break, and they want to make sure they get their 8 hours of work for which they pay. It saves the government money.
If you work 6 or more hours, you have to be given a meal break no less than 30 minutes and no more than 1 hour. You are not paid for that time. At my agency, the meal break is 45 minutes. So, I have to work 8 hours and during that time take 45 minutes of unpaid time. Which means that my tour of duty is 9 -5:45 pm. It is up to the agencies as to whether the meal period can be taken at the end or the beginning of your scheduled work day; my agency forbids it.
If OP were to dig down, she will learn that her agency permits people to take their meal period at the end of the day, provided they don't take one at any other time. So while her official tour of duty may be 9 am to 5:30 pm, as a practical matter it is 9 am to 5 pm.
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