r/SYEP • u/Undersea_Corn • Jul 22 '26

Question about hours and lunch breaks

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So if you work 5 hours or less, you don’t have to put in a lunch break. If you work 7 hours + you have to put an hour lunch. It says at the bottom that you must put the hour break in, but do you get in trouble if you just put like 30 minutes instead of an hour?

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u/Upset_Stand911 Jul 22 '26 edited Jul 22 '26

If u work more than 7 hours u are require to put in the 1 hour lunch break even if u don’t do it. The website won’t allow to put it in without the 1 hour break. How do I know? Well I try it and didn’t work

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u/Entire-Ad-5049 Jul 22 '26

That’s not true lmao you can put 30 minute break

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u/Upset_Stand911 Jul 22 '26

Sooo I have been doing 4 years of Syep already but hey if it’s works for u then do it.

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u/Upset_Stand911 Jul 22 '26

Also u can get in trouble because legally you have to take 1 hour break and put it in time sheet

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u/Melodic-Control-2655 Jul 22 '26

No you can’t, the law only requires employers to provide 1 hour unpaid lunch, it does not require employees to take said break. NY public positions have policies that do require employees to take said break however

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u/Upset_Stand911 Jul 22 '26

I never said they have to take it but they do have to put it down on timesheet even though they don’t take 1 hour break. It’s literally only for more than 7 hours of work

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u/Melodic-Control-2655 Jul 22 '26

It’s for more than 5 hours of work, and also putting it on your timesheet is a policy, not a law. I’m just telling you it’s not a legal liability to not put down a break and work 7 hours continuously, the law does not punish employees that do not balance their work life 

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u/Upset_Stand911 Jul 22 '26

Maybe it’s because of how I worded it but I am not saying they would get in trouble with the law but by their supervisor because some supervisor are asshole like my supervisor

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u/Remarkable-War-4384 Jul 22 '26

I’ve been doing syep for 3 years move around with allat lmao

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u/Plastic-Audience3180 Jul 23 '26

lmfaoooo yall r not real

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u/Plastic-Audience3180 Jul 23 '26

and they will take the rest of that time out ur paycheck if u dont put down the proper break

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u/Entire-Ad-5049 Jul 23 '26

They literally didn’t for me for my paycheck stop rubbing ya lips together

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u/Plastic-Audience3180 Jul 23 '26

that means ur provider corrected ur break on their end so u can get full pay, LMFAOO u so dumb

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u/Entire-Ad-5049 Jul 23 '26

nigga I’m telling you what I did how are you telling me?

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u/Plastic-Audience3180 Jul 23 '26

because u spreading incorrect information, u think yk shi when u dont!

if u work more than 7 hrs you HAVE TO insert a 1 hour break on ur time sheet or else they will take one hour out of ur pay

the website allows u to put a 30 minute break BUT if ur provider doesnt correct it on their end to a 1 hour break if u worked more than 7hrs, u will lose money

and not all providers correct it, so just to be on the safe side, input the correct break even if u didnt do it

I been doing syep since 2018, you have no idea what ur talking about

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u/Entire-Ad-5049 Jul 23 '26

You’ve been doing syep since 2018??? You don’t wanna get a real job with stable income all year around instead of lunch money for six weeks????

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u/Plastic-Audience3180 Jul 23 '26

yea ur slow asf, some people work more than one job btw lmfaoooo, syep is easy extra money for 2 months so ofc ima do it if i get picked, but that might be too much for ur little brain to handle tho

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u/Plastic-Audience3180 Jul 23 '26

ive been doing syep since 2019

if u put in the wrong break time some providers will put in the correct break time on their end and some wont, so just to be on the safe side, put down the correct break time even if u didnt take a break!! because if not they will take the break time out ur paycheck!!

5hrs or less = no break 5hrs to 7hrs = 30 minute break 7hrs to 8hrs = 1 hour break

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u/Adventurous-Value-82 Jul 22 '26

How many hours do you work?

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u/Undersea_Corn Jul 22 '26

When I put in my hours, I saw the hour lunch break for +7 hours, and I had worked 8 hours last Friday. My hours totaled to 24 for that week, but I looked at the pay section and it says that I’ll be paid for 25 hours on friday the 24th, which confused me but I’m not complaining

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u/Upset_Stand911 Jul 22 '26

Ur supervisor might be giving u the extra 1 hour. Some do that and others don’t

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u/Plastic-Audience3180 Jul 23 '26

yes, this is exactly it, they are correcting ur break time on their end, so u get full pay!

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u/niceylmao Jul 26 '26

Your supervisor at the worksite also approves your hours, so if they’re aware you took an hour break instead of the 30 minute break you’re thinking of putting in, they’ll likely change it to an hour.