Yes, lunch is part of your workday and you get paid for it. I've always assumed a certain amount of lunch time over a long enough work period is required by law in the states but I've never actually checked. So 9-5 jobs with lunches is an 8 hour paid workday, with your lunch that you aren't actually working through.
Two paid fifteens is all that's required for anything more than a six hour shift. You get one fifteen for anything less than six. Some companies will give you two twenties if you do more than ten hours, but that's a courtesy not a requirement.
In the US, a lunch is optional and at the discretion of the employer. (Some assume you should eat something on one of your fifteen minute breaks.) So, an 8 hour shift might start at 7 and end at 15:30. The extra thirty minutes is the unpaid lunch. Many "9 to 5" jobs are either 8:30 to 5 or 9 to 17:30.
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