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Defines company time for salaried staff as whatever falls inside agreed work hours and says anything outside that likely requires legal advice, cites federal breaks and that many employers treat lunch as unpaid lunch, explains on‑call usually gets folded into job descriptions and can be eliminated by negotiating 24x7 support funded by hiring, and gives concrete organizing tactics: map cross‑role contacts, run off‑hours Discord meetups, and reach out to unions like IWW CWA OPEIU or local Teamsters for guidance.
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