Has anyone ever worked at a facility where you could not leave the premises for lunch, you had to clock out and also the facility didn’t offer free meals either?

Our telemetry department do not allow nurses to leave the hospital premises for lunch: either eat at the work station or break room. We are experiencing nurse shortages and nobody will cover for us so we have to work through lunch time and eat whenever we can. As for the free meals, our facility doesn’t allow free meals for the staff.

I work nights in a behavioral medicine unit. We usually do not have enough staff coverage to go to lunch. I eat at my work station. Also, there is not a cafeteria open at night. There is a very high-priced Bistro only open until 8 pm. Our facility does not offer free meals.

If they arent paying you for your lunch they cant tell you