Employee Breaks Montana Tennessee

[tonyalou]

IF a employee who the company says can take 2 15 minute breaks and a 30 minute lunch desides to eat on the first 15 minute break and not take a clock out break but add 30 minutes because it is deducted for lunch but lunch was taken on the 15 minutes 1st break. This can not be right I thought the law stated after 6 hours you must have a 30 minute rest/lunch period and the 15 minutes breaks was up to the employer.

[Pattymd]

I'm assuming that you really do mean Tennessee and the click on Montana was just an oops.

Yes the meal breaks are required. And yes, you can discipline the employee for not following company policies (which you could do even if the law didn't require the breaks). If he wants to eat on his rest break, that's his business. But it doesn't replace the required meal period and you are perfectly within your legal rights to make him take it.