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<blockquote data-quote="Star B" data-source="post: 2970011" data-attributes="member: 61246">Laws what happens when employers don&#039;t allocate time for employees to have a break.&nbsp; Such as with Express.&nbsp; If you&#039;re an extended route with a P1 commit of 16:30 that is heavy or a DRA route where DRA stupidly puts business SO at the end of your route when you RTB at 15:10.&nbsp; Do you take your break and then have lates, or do you run during the day and take your break at the end?&nbsp; If state law mandates it, then it&#039;s on FedEx to make sure you have time for a break AND make service.&nbsp; If it doesn&#039;t, then it is always your fault because &quot;you didn&#039;t plan right&quot; even though you have NO control over the amount of freight or DRA.&nbsp; Oncalls compound the situation as well. That is one part where I want a Union.&nbsp; The union should protect against idiocies such as that.My personal rule, I&#039;ll take it when I need it.&nbsp; I&#039;ve heard grumbling from some of the lifers that they don&#039;t like breaks because it breaks the flow of the day and slows them down.&nbsp; I&#039;m typically on an extended route so I&#039;m not nearly as taxed physically as someone with a tight in-town route and 120 stops.I&#039;ve printed my timecard and forgot to take a break, but as soon as I noticed it, I went into the breakroom and sat for another half an hour and wrote it on the card. The timeclocks (at least ours) will let you punch out again at a different time.&nbsp; They will not let you double-punch twice in a minute.I&#039;m in a state that goes off FX policy of 6-30, 8-1, even thought the 8-1 is never enforced unless it helps on-road numbers.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Star B, post: 2970011, member: 61246"] Laws what happens when employers don't allocate time for employees to have a break. Such as with Express. If you're an extended route with a P1 commit of 16:30 that is heavy or a DRA route where DRA stupidly puts business SO at the end of your route when you RTB at 15:10. Do you take your break and then have lates, or do you run during the day and take your break at the end? If state law mandates it, then it's on FedEx to make sure you have time for a break AND make service. If it doesn't, then it is always your fault because "you didn't plan right" even though you have NO control over the amount of freight or DRA. Oncalls compound the situation as well. That is one part where I want a Union. The union should protect against idiocies such as that. My personal rule, I'll take it when I need it. I've heard grumbling from some of the lifers that they don't like breaks because it breaks the flow of the day and slows them down. I'm typically on an extended route so I'm not nearly as taxed physically as someone with a tight in-town route and 120 stops. I've printed my timecard and forgot to take a break, but as soon as I noticed it, I went into the breakroom and sat for another half an hour and wrote it on the card. The timeclocks (at least ours) will let you punch out again at a different time. They will not let you double-punch twice in a minute. I'm in a state that goes off FX policy of 6-30, 8-1, even thought the 8-1 is never enforced unless it helps on-road numbers. [/QUOTE]

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