A. No, there is neither a federal nor state legal requirement to provide employees with breaks. While there is no federal or state requirement to provide a lunch or meal period of any duration, the University provides the opportunity for a meal period of no less than 30 minutes for work shifts of more than seven hours. The actual time and length of the meal period will be scheduled by the supervisor. Meal periods are considered personal time, and are not considered work time for pay purposes.
Supervisors have the authority to require their employees to work in excess of eight hours per day.
Supervisors should give their employees as much advance notice of the need to work overtime as possible. Advance notice will provide employees with time to make adjustments in their personal schedules. Repeated failure to give notice of the need to work overtime may create employee relations problems.