The U.S. Department of Labor shows the states with mandatory lunch breaks and the states with mandatory rest periods.  The national Conference of State Legislatures has a list of which states codified religious and personal belief vaccine exceptions.

This article is to narrow down long a long term settlement plan based upon a critical factor, probably the most important factor.  Some might not think this factor is that important, but since it is encountered day in and day out every working day of every year, it is extremely important.  The factor is whether or not a worker gets breaks at work.  Numerous states do not mandate any kind of break.  Others mandate a lunch period, and others mandate lunch and rest periods.  Some mandate lunch periods only for those under 18.  Ostensibly, the day after one’s 18th birthday is the point at which one no longer needs rest during a workday for those states.

I have worked in Kentucky and Tennessee.  Both of these states have different regulations. Tennessee requires a lunch break, but does not specify rest periods.  Kentucky specifies lunch and rest periods.  In the state of Kentucky, every employer I ever worked for except for one complied with all the provisions.  A single employer hated the idea of rest periods, but such behavior was illegal and that gives people the right to argue against them.  In Tennessee, which has a slightly different framework, I have had had 2 employers which had both lunch and rest breaks, 1 employer that had only a 30-minute lunch break in the center of a ten hour shift, and one employer that had none until complained on severely, and then the complainers got the mandatory lunch break while the non-complainers still received no breaks.

New Hampshire was on my short list, but it mandates only lunch breaks like Tennessee.  That means a distribution center with a senior walking 10 miles a day would have no rest periods and that would be legal and they would have no argument against that treatment.

With n=4, lunch and break stands at 50% for a state that regulates only a lunch period, and greater > 95% in a state that regulates both lunch and breaks.  Part of that may not even relate to any kind of enforcement, but the simple cultural difference that workers should be able to rest for a few minutes during the day and the people growing up under such a culture just expect that it will happen for others.

Illinois, Kentucky, Colorado, and Vermont pass the anti-slavish test.  California also regulates lunch and rest periods, but they and New York have chosen the path of gene-therapy anti-humanism and cannot be considered among the moral states that we consider further.

Of those 4 states continuing, Vermont’s regulation about rest periods is a vague standard of reasonable to protect health and hygiene.  The other three specify minimum time amounts.  So any person who will have to work a full time job in their senior years should live in one of those three, possibly four states.  Frankly, anyone who has to work a full time job at all should live in one of those states.  Maybe a further look at the pragmatic realities related to Vermont’s non-specific standard would make it a quartet of states with respect of workers.

A non passive-incomer’s state of choice to settle in would then be either Illinois, Kentucky, or Colorado, so that they may have some rest breaks during the thousands of days they spend working over the course of their lives.  It’s illegal to work animals with no breaks in the same states you can do it to humans if you are a monied interest.