Employers in the US state of Kentucky would no longer be required to give employees a "reasonable" amount of time for lunch or rest breaks under a committee-approved bill passed earlier this week by Republicans, Kentucky Lantern reported.
Legislation HB 500, introduced by Phillip Pratt, a Republican from Georgetown, would curb state laws mandating rest intervals every four hours and lunch breaks every three to five hours throughout a work shift.
The bill would also:
Pratt said, "You have federal law, which says you must do this; then you have state law, which says you've got to do that. To run afoul of them becomes very easy."
Labour organisations, including the Kentucky State AFL-CIO, and representatives of the Kentucky Education and Labour Cabinet voiced grave reservations and opposition to the bill, claiming that it may jeopardise long-standing pay and workplace rights for workers in Kentucky.
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