Many employees are cutting down or even eliminating lunch breaks to be more productive at work, according to USA Today. This could be problematic for employers if those workers are not exempt from labor laws that guarantee them rights to meal breaks. 

A web survey by Right Management revealed that 65 percent of workers say they eat at their desks of don't take a break at all. Only one-third say they take a lunch break.

"Everyone's busier all the way around," Mary George Meiners of Clear Channel Communications told the source. "A lot of our clients are business owners, and they're slammed; our media buyers are slammed. Everybody's trying to be more productive."

Federal labor laws outlined by the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) do not require employers to provide workers with a meal break, but 22 states have instituted their own laws. In those states non-exempt employees are guaranteed a 30-minute meal break for shifts longer than six hours. They must be relieved of all job duties during this time. Employers don't need to pay them for employee attendance during break times unless they still have to perform any job functions.

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