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Employees Spent 14 Minutes Walking to and From Lunch. The DOL Says the Employer Still Didn’t Have to Pay Them.

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pparently, even the walk to lunch can become a federal wage-and-hour question. The answer depends less on the distance traveled than on what remains when employees arrive.

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DR: Employees at a detention facility spent between six and 14 minutes of an unpaid 60-minute meal period walking to and from a designated break area. The Department of Labor concluded that the entire period could remain unpaid because the employees performed no

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