Category: Meal and Rest Break

At the end of May, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) published four opinion letters. These letters are the agency’s written guidance on how it…

For the last several years, California and other interested parties have fought in court over whether California’s meal and rest break laws can be enforced…

Can our new hires sign one-time blanket meal break waivers, or does the employee need to sign a written waiver each time they waive a…

Can employees working shifts of six hours or less sign written prospective (or “blanket”) meal waivers? Since employees don’t clock out for rest breaks, how…

In a recent case, a California Court of Appeal handed employers a rare win, finding nonexempt employees’ written prospective meal waivers — meaning employees signed…

Supervisors can create serious compliance issues for employers if they’re not properly trained to manage a California-based workforce — particularly in wage and hour law. …

We have an employee who is scheduled to work an eight-hour shift and routinely clocks out for his meal break after working only two hours….

To help businesses comply with the newly enacted Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) reform legislation, the California Chamber of Commerce has put together a PAGA Wage…

In a win for employers, the California Supreme Court recently held that if an employer reasonably and in good faith believed it was providing a…

Recently, the California Supreme Court answered the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals’ certified wage-and-hour questions, determining, among other things, that the time workers spend in…