Practice question
To prevent serious loss of perishable goods, an employer uses the authorized shortened-meal arrangement and grants thirty minutes. May it deduct that period merely because the employees eat during it?
- Yes, eating always defeats compensation
- Yes, thirty minutes is automatically unpaid
- Yes, the exception abolishes the meal period
- Yes, any employer may ignore the paid condition
- No; the specified shorter meal period must be credited as compensable time
Legal references
- Omnibus Rules, Book III, Rule I, Section 7: https://lawphil.net/statutes/presdecs/pd1974/pd_442a_1974.html
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