Employers in NYS must provide certain employees with at least 24 consecutive hours of rest in any calendar week. Non-Factory Workers are entitled to a 30-minute lunch break between a.m. and.Employee meal breaks are required to be at least 30 minutes if an employee works six hours anywhere throughout New York state. Employees are entitled to a 45-minute break for shifts more than 6 consecutive hours that begin between 1 p.m. New York law does not require employers to give employees a rest break. However, if an employer chooses to offer rest breaks, any such breaks lasting 20 minutes or less must be included in the employees' hours worked. In New York, employers are required to provide a meal break to employees, but rest periods throughout the day are not mandated. While federal law does not require workers to be provided with regular breaks, employers that allow short rest breaks must compensate employees for that time. Workers have the right to be paid for all the time that they work and to be paid on time. Rest breaks are just as important.