A few minutes later, the clinic received an emergency call from the company's assembly department when one of its workers had suffered a heart attack. The patient arrived at the clinic at 12:25 p.m. The nurse on duty immediately rushed him to the hospital. When my uncle reached the clinic around 12:30 p.m., the nurse on duty had already left with the patient. The patient died the next day.
– Every employer shall give his employees, regardless of sex, not less than one hour time-off for regular meals, except in the following cases when a meal period of not less than twenty minutes may be given by the employer provided that such shorter meal period is credited as compensable hours worked of the employee:' Where the work is non-manual work in nature or does not involve strenuous physical exertion;' Where the establishment regularly operates not less than sixteen hours a...