Practice question
An employer operates regularly for eighteen hours daily and adopts the Section 7 shortened-meal arrangement for covered staff, giving twenty-five minutes. It says the listed operational exception authorizes both shortening the meal and withholding pay for it. No other arrangement is involved. Which is correct?
- The exception makes every meal unpaid
- The shorter period is allowed under the stated exception but must be credited as compensable time
- The rule authorizes a five-minute meal instead
- The employee must finance the operating hours
- All eighteen hours automatically count as each worker’s personal workday
Legal references
- Omnibus Rules, Book III, Rule I, Section 7(b): https://lawphil.net/statutes/presdecs/pd1974/pd_442a_1974.html
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