  Should pharmacists get a lunch break by law?  Posted on
September 14, 2011  I got the following email from a reader
asking my thoughts on lunches for pharmacists. I'm not going to
post his name or the store he works for, but you'll get the jist
of what is going on:   I've been working for [this pharmacy] in
[the Southeastern USA] for many years (5+ let's say). Before
that, I spent 12 years at Walgreens. Is there any legal issue in
a company not allowing their pharmacists a legitimate, leave the
pharmacy, timed, lunch break? Well, legally, it must not be, or
they would not be so easily getting away with it. As far as I
know, it is the ONLY corporately run pharmacy not giving a lunch
break in the state in which I live. All the usual suspects, when
it comes to these human rights issues, Walgreeens, CVS, Wal-
mart, Sam's Club, provide lunches -- sometimes even within a
CLOSED PHARMACY. Do you have any comments? How can I post such a
question on your site to ask other professionals?   Well, you
did it in the righ