Practice question
A covered hospital schedules eight work hours daily on five days, plus genuine fully relieved meal periods. It says the meal periods consume part of the prescribed eight work hours under the special paragraph. No special compensability rule or actual meal work applies. Which is sound?
- Every meal interval is necessarily actual work.
- The paragraph prescribes the eight hours exclusive of meals; the genuine relieved intervals must be distinguished.
- The text expressly includes all meals within eight hours.
- Hospitals have no normal-hour rule.
- Only the time clock’s total span can ever matter.
Legal references
- Labor Code Articles 83, 295-296 and 301 (renumbered 280-281 and 286): https://lawphil.net/statutes/presdecs/pd1974/pd_442_1974.html
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