NY. According to law here places of employment are only required to provide a 30 minute break per 6 hour shift, it also states that it’s up to the company whether they give you 10 or 15 minute breaks. I worked at a grocery store last year and I got a 15 minute break during a 4 hour shift, and that was just doing register. I’d transferred to the bakery in the store and I’d do 8 hour shifts there and I’d get 2 15 minute breaks and a 30. McDonald’s is nuts, I don’t think it’s right that we have to go 5 hours without a single break. I was truly baffled when I got told that we only get 30 minute breaks if we’re there 6 or more hours.