Do you get paid for your lunch?

Never have been any place I worked. But we do clock "no lunch" when there is not time for a lunch break.

there are always strings attached......if you mean getting paid because you worked thru lunch.....or getting paid routinely for that 1/2 hour....the second would mean they "own" you even on your lunch time.....

I'd love to have lunch paid for :).

I have never been paid for lunch if I actually got a break. It was a big deal in our hospital for a while that people weren't taking breaks and just worked through lunch breaks. They didn't want to pay that much overtime because anything over 8 hours a day is overtime for us. So we NEED to clock out for a half hour, but if there isn't time we have to fill out an overtime slip and get it approved.

I get my lunch paid for :) My unit (an ICU) is *excellent* about lunches actually. It is one of the reasons I decided to become an RN there! LOL! The charge nurses, even if you have a horribly busy patient will almost always cover your lunch break. Isn't that awesome? There are some days where everyone is super busy and all you have time for is to down a slimfast drink or munch on granola bars or something....but that isn't often.

No strings attached, just a very kick ass unit I work on :)

I work 12 hour shifts, get a 1 hour lunch/dinner break and I get paid for the whole 12 hours.

so does this mean you can leave a 1/2 hr earlier? or do you do work an 8.5 hr day?

there are always strings attached......if you mean getting paid because you worked thru lunch.....or getting paid routinely for that 1/2 hour....the second would mean they "own" you even on your lunch time.....

No, we get paid for lunch routinely, OT if we work through lunch.

so does this mean you can leave a 1/2 hr earlier? or do you do work an 8.5 hr day?

We do 7-7:30 3 days a week and get paid for 40 hrs.

We do 7-7:30 3 days a week and get paid for 40 hrs.

That sounds like a great deal. Working 37.5 hours/ and being paid for 40. I would vote for that

Yup! We get paid for our 1/2 lunch break. Although, you can't leave the building premesis. You can go outside but you have to be within hearing distance of the paging system. So that means, no going for a walk, no leaving to go grab something to eat at the deli's, fast food, etc thats really really close to us, no going to your car etc.

Then again, I have NEVER gone through my entire 1/2 hr without being interrupted. I guess thats why we get paid for our lunches. Since technically, we still have to work if a call comes in, or if we are paged back to the floor etc.

The CNA's, and other unlicensed personnel don't get paid for their lunch. They get to leave the building. They can go/do anything they want on their lunch breaks (many go out for lunch etc).

We don't get paid for our lunch breaks, even if we DON'T take them. That's right, you can fill out the slip that says you were too busy to take a meal break, but they still won't pay you for them: will claim that you should have gotten someone to cover you, supervisor to cover, whatever...you're not allowed the "excuse" that you were too busy! How's that? And don't get me started on the Labor Board thing: as far as they're concerned, if we haven't exhausted every option (meaning, bugging every nurse--who has 8-9 patients of her own already-- and supervisor to cover every single time) then no, we're out of luck.

And btw, even when we do get meal breaks, we're also "on": I work nights, and there's no way to not be reachable for 30 minutes (see above non-covering situation).

There's no clocking out, payroll just automatically deducts a half hour from every shift where you've worked at least 6 hours.

It goes with the job, so I've learned to accept it. If I wanted to guarantee my lunches, I'd have to work days!!