Sub Specialty Contractor

Does anyone have any creative way of handling lunch breaks or do they pay their employee for the breaks?  We have managers who have several different ways of handling lunch breaks some want to automatically deduct them. Others let them go thru as being paid if they are short breaks.  Does anyone else pay for lunch breaks if they are short under 30 minutes?

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Melissa Stedry
VP of Admin & Finance
Fire Security Electronics & Communications
Phoenix AZ
(602) 564-7770
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Attached is our break policy. The idea is that if the employee takes less than 20 minutes to grab and eat their lunch and/or worked through lunch, it counts as working hours. However, we don't want any employee to feel obligated to work through lunch. So we give them the option to take an unpaid lunch break of 20 minutes to an hour.

We do not automatically deduct because that could become a legal liability if you deduct it when they actually worked. I also feel like since it's the employee's responsibility to report their hours accurately, they can't ever claim that they weren't paid for times they worked through lunch. 

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Laurie Schrimpf CPA
VP of Finance and Operations
United Terrain Group
Morganville NJ
(732) 970-7980
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Original Message:
Sent: 7/27/2021 11:15:00 AM
From: Laurie Schrimpf
Subject: RE: Lunch Breaks

Attached is our break policy. The idea is that if the employee takes less than 20 minutes to grab and eat their lunch and/or worked through lunch, it counts as working hours. However, we don't want any employee to feel obligated to work through lunch. So we give them the option to take an unpaid lunch break of 20 minutes to an hour.

We do not automatically deduct because that could become a legal liability if you deduct it when they actually worked. I also feel like since it's the employee's responsibility to report their hours accurately, they can't ever claim that they weren't paid for times they worked through lunch. 

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Laurie Schrimpf CPA
VP of Finance and Operations
United Terrain Group
Morganville NJ
(732) 970-7980
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