Are student employees entitled to breaks during the workday?
By law, any employee working more than 7.5 consecutive hours is entitled to a minimum of 20 minutes of unpaid time for lunch. Employees working less than that are not entitled to break time. While you are not required by law to give part-time employees a break if their works shifts are less than 7.5 hours, the Career Center encourages you to allow student employees an unpaid lunch break when their shift happens over the lunch hour. Your student employee may be coming to work straight from class and not have time to stop for lunch.
