Have I just been outrageously lucky in the past 20+ years around the greater China area (HK, Macau, Taiwan, mainland) in that my lunch hours have always been considered part of the working day (i.e. 8am - 5pm Mon-Fri = 45 hour week)?
It didn't occur to me even to ask about this when I signed the contract for my current job here, but now I discover myself working an extra half day a week because "lunch hour is not company time."
This is a full-time professional job, not casual labour at a fast food outlet.
From what I can see on the Labour Department website this practice doesn't seem to be actually illegal, so more fool me for not having asked ... but what experience have others had?