A paid 10-minute rest period for every four hours worked. If you have worked less than 6 hours in a day, you can agree to forego your meal break.You can also agree to take your meal break while on duty. Employers must authorize and permit uninterrupted rest breaks for all nonexempt employees whose total daily work time is at least 3.5 hours. "Compensable temporary disability absence", for the purpose of this section, is any absence due to work-connected disability which qualified for temporary. For example, an employer must allow an employee to take a lunch break within the first 5 hours of work. Workers should be paid fairly. California law requires employers to give employees at least one 30 minute meal break for every five hours of work in a given day. In California, most nonexempt employees are entitled to a certain number of meal breaks and rest periods throughout their work shifts. Workers should be paid fairly.