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An hour is taken out of my paycheck for lunch, but I never get to actually clock out and eat.

Hello fellow grunts, I currently work at an airport doing baggage full-time which consists of 13 hour days, 3 days a week. I have been with the company about a year now and they always take an hour out of your paycheck (30 min if shift is under 6 hours), but they never let you clock out and actually take the hour break. We have small miniature breaks in between planes and sometimes these can last a while if a plane gets delayed. They say that is our hour break even though we are still on the clock and it is split up in smaller portions. Is this allowed? I used to just kind of ignore it because no one ever said anything and I didn’t want to be the person to speak up and be targeted for it. But our company is piling a ton of more work on…


Hello fellow grunts,

I currently work at an airport doing baggage full-time which consists of 13 hour days, 3 days a week. I have been with the company about a year now and they always take an hour out of your paycheck (30 min if shift is under 6 hours), but they never let you clock out and actually take the hour break.

We have small miniature breaks in between planes and sometimes these can last a while if a plane gets delayed. They say that is our hour break even though we are still on the clock and it is split up in smaller portions. Is this allowed?

I used to just kind of ignore it because no one ever said anything and I didn’t want to be the person to speak up and be targeted for it. But our company is piling a ton of more work on us with no compensation (except the periodic cookout… yay) and I’m starting to feel like my work is being taken advantage of more than I originally thought.

Any experience or advice is greatly appreciated. I don’t wanna make waves but it’s getting a little too hot to stay out of the pool

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