In the state of Pennsylvania Can an employer work you 8 hours a day without giving you a lunch?

What is the job, some jobs such as a police officer,prison guard and the such work under "special" rules esp in emergancy situations.

But there are Federal Labor standards about not working over specific number of hours without a break. ( never says lunch,merely break)

Also not truck drivers have restrictions on number of hours dirving

Refer to the Federal law poster required to be posted at your employors work place.

Also please be more specific as to what type of job it is and a few more details before I start doing a lot of searching for info

Pennsylvania itself has no laws requiring breaks of any kind, no matter how many hours you work.

By the way, there is also no federal law anymore that says you must be given breaks. Only the ones that you must be paid for if they are given. Breaks are now only required for those under 18.

Here are some online topics that address this same issue:

http://experts.about.com/q/924/2665563.htm

http://www.laborlawtalk.com/showthread.php?t=954

http://www.dol.ks.gov/ES/HTML/laws_RES.html

http://www.lawforkids.org/speakup/view_question.cfm?id=187&page=5

http://www.dol.gov/esa/programs/whd/state/meal.htm

http://www.ewin.com/articles/restper.htm

I will stand corrected, it appears the law has been changed, I have not looked up OSHA laws.

I would believe that those places that do not, will have more problems finding employees.

I will be researching this more, since I am still sure that there must be some stipulation for this under some governing group.

Please don't think I was trying to show you up or anything. I just happened to stumble across this board recently, and wanted to help.

Yes, it is in their best interest to provide breaks, but they cannot be forced to, so you are right, for the places that don't, there will be a high turnover rate.

There are some states that provide their own stipulations regarding breaks, but PA isn't one of them.

Just normal average jobs such as factory, sales or fast food chains... etc.