PA Labor Laws and breaks

[Uppercut]

"Pennsylvania employers are not required to provide breaks to employees age 18 and over. If the employer permits break periods, and they last less than 20 minutes, the employee must be paid for the break. If the employer allows meal periods, the employer is not required to pay the employee if the employee does not work during the meal period and it lasts more than 20 minutes. Employers and employees may agree to different terms of the employment is governed by a collective bargaining agreement."

I've got a pretty big problem in my workplace. I work at Subway and it sucks an incredible amount of ass working with an elitist employer and having to deal with brain dead customers. But my main problem is the break system. We are not allowed to sit down at all, for any reason, no matter how many hours we work. And standing in a single spot for 7 hours straight really kills my knees and my back.
At first, I thought she was neglecting labor laws, but upon further inspections, what she's doing is completely legal. I'm over 18 so I'm not permitted a break longer than 10-15 minutes. I still plan on quitting, but for a different reason now. I just can't take it. I guess I'm a wimp.

I'm wondering if anyone else on here has ever had any issues with labor laws here.

[Nothing Human Is Alien]

Yea, that's the law in PA. There's not much you can do short of trying to take action with your fellow workers. The bosses will never gift us better conditions.

This is part of why the working class is the only real revolutionary class in capitalism. We don't simply want to end capitalism because we have moral disagreements with the waythings are carried out, we need to overthrow capitalism because it alienates us from our labor, turns us into wage slaves and ruins our lives.

[#FF0000]

Labor laws in PA are bullshit. I remember being two minutes late for work at Wendy's one day, and they told me to wait another hour before clocking in, and to wait in the dining room. I told them I'd be back in an hour, and they said I'd be taken off the schedule for the rest of the week if I left the building. I told them that was illegal and that I was going to Labor Relations, and they fired me on the spot.

Labor Relations told me there was nothing I could do, because PA is a "Fire-For-Any-Reason" state.

[Nothing Human Is Alien]

AKA "at-will" employment.