So my employer, a suburban park district in Illinois, is now mandating that our landscape staff either eat their lunches in the field (I.e. in their work truck) OR factor in drive time to their 50-minute lunch break. They used to get 2 15-minute paid breaks and a 20-minute unpaid lunch, but now it’s one 50-minute break. There IS a break room at our facility, and it’s not more than about 15 minutes away from anywhere in the District, but the order has now come from on-high that we cannot leave a work site somewhat early to get back to our designated break area. Everyone else in the District does not have to do this, only Landscape staff.
Any insight on this?