Practice question
A control-room employee is nominally assigned a one-hour lunch. Throughout that hour she must monitor alarms, answer operational calls and remain ready for immediate action; she is never relieved by another employee. The employer automatically deducts the hour because she can eat at the console. Which is best?
- The actual required duty must be counted; an opportunity to eat does not by itself create a duty-free unpaid meal period
- The payroll label conclusively proves a valid unpaid meal
- All food consumption eliminates hours worked
- A control-room worker has no rights under the stipulated coverage
- A worker must refuse food to establish compensability
Legal references
- Omnibus Rules, Book III, Rule I, Sections 3–5 and 7: https://lawphil.net/statutes/presdecs/pd1974/pd_442a_1974.html
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