Students and temps. do not receive benefits such as sick or vacation leave. Employers should offer student employees a minimum thirty-minute lunch/dinner break if scheduled for six or more hours.

Breaks & Lunch

Breaks

• If student /temp is working for 6 hours a fifteen minute break is given.
•  If they work over 6 hours they get 2 fifteen minutes breaks and a lunch of at least 30 minutes or no more than one hour

Lunch periods

• are unpaid and range from a minimum of 30 minutes to a maximum of  one hour in a work period of 7½ hours or more,
   
• a meal period of at least 30 minutes must be provided before the end of 5 hours of work.
   
• certain employees who are required to remain on duty or on  call through the lunch period, the lunch period is part of the paid work shift.
   
• In work situations where employees are free to move about and visit restrooms from time to time, formal rest periods are unnecessary
   
• However, full-time employees who are substantially bound to one work site and to continuous tasks without freedom to move should have a specific rest break each half day.
   
• Under similar working conditions, part-time employees who work at least four but less than seven hours per day are eligible for one such rest break per day.
   
• Rest periods do not exceed 15 minutes and may not be accumulated or used to shorten the beginning or ending of a workday.
   
• Rest breaks are scheduled at the discretion of the supervisor.