I just want to be sure I am understanding how Ohio works in regards to lunches and breaks. If I am reading and understanding correctly, by law, Ohio DOES NOT have any laws requiring that employers give their employees a lunch break or any kind of break for that matter, after any certain number of hours worked, period, correct?

That's correct.

However, just to be sure it's clear, the fact that Ohio does not have mandatory break laws does NOT mean that the employer is prohibited from making breaks a requirement. If the employer wants you to take a break, you take a break, whether the law requires breaks or not.

Hey, Thanks for everyone who has applied. I was just wondering because where I work it IS MANDATORY for us to take our required 15min. breaks and 30 min. lunches when we are supposed too. I was just wondering if it were an actual law, because that is how my place of work makes it sound but then on the other hand where my husband works, they are almost made to feel like their employer frowns upon them taking a break. So we didn't know if his employer had the right to do that or not.

Neither Federal nor Ohio law requires breaks. However, it is legal for the employer to require them; it is legal for the employer to require that they be taken at specific times; and it is legal for the employer to discipline you for not taking them.

In some states breaks are required by law. But in states where it is not, it is also legal for an employer to not just frown on, but out and out prohibit breaks. (I don't approve of that - I think all employees should be entitled by law to both lunch and rest breaks. But so far no president has seen fit to appoint me Labor Secretary.)

It's all what the individual employer's policy is.