New Hampshire Republicans Propose Bill To Eliminate Workers’ Lunch Breaks [View all]
New Hampshire Republicans Propose Bill To Eliminate Workers’ Lunch Breaks
By Pat Garofalo on Feb 8, 2012 at 3:00 pm
New Hampshire’s GOP legislature has come up with all manner of absurd bills recently, including a proposal making public school curriculum optional, another to prevent police from protecting domestic abuse victims, and even a measure mandating that new laws be based on the Magna Carta. Some of the Granite State’s GOP lawmakers have even proposed doing away with the law that requires employers to give their workers time off for lunch, under the rationale that all employers will simply grant lunch breaks out of the goodness of their hearts:
“This is an unneeded law,” Republican state Representative Kyle Jones said. “If I was to deny one of my employees a break, I would be in a very bad position with the company’s human resources representative. If you consider that this is a very easy law to follow in that everyone already does it, then why do we need it? Our constituents have already proven that they have enough common sense to do this on their own.”
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http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/02/08/421510/new-hampshire-gop-repeal-lunch/
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Lunch breaks on the chopping block
Bill would leave it up to employers
By Ray Duckler / Monitor columnist
February 8, 2012
Mark MacKenzie, the state's AFL-CIO president, yesterday told Rep. JR Hoell of Dunbarton to give him a break.
Repeal the law requiring half-hour lunch breaks for employees after five straight hours of work?
Trust all bosses to do the right thing, all the time?
MacKenzie, who once fought fires and now fights for workers' rights, said pass the salad, not this bill.
"Quite frankly," MacKenzie said, "considering this is 2012, and I'm talking about the repeal of the lunch hour, this is outrageous."
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