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Work State Laws With Breaks In Los Angeles
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Yes, you can bring a legal claim associated with the employer not providing you with a reasonable opportunity to take your meal or rest periods.
Employers who make it difficult or impossible for their workers to take these legally-protected breaks owe their workers compensation for forcing them to miss their breaks. Should they fail to provide this compensation, these employers could face a lawsuit based on California law.
Trust me, this is a very common question and many like you are surprised that there is no federal law requiring that employees be given breaks in the United States. An employer has the right to make you work 12 hours without a break or even 16 hours.
California requires employers to provide employees with ten-minute rest breaks for every four hours (or major fraction) worked. Anything over two hours is a “major fraction” of a four-hour period.
No, under California law rest period time is based on the total hours worked daily, and only one ten-minute rest period need be authorized for every four hours of work or major fraction thereof.
In most Los Angeles workplaces, non-exempt employees are entitled to: An unpaid thirty minute meal break when they work at least five hours. Two unpaid thirty minute meal breaks when they work at least ten hours. A ten minute, on-the-clock rest period for every four hours worked.
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Employers must authorize and permit uninterrupted rest breaks for all nonexempt employees whose total daily work time is at least 3.5 hours. If you work over 5 hours in a day, you are entitled to a meal break of at least 30 minutes that must start before the end of the fifth hour of your shift.Under CA law, meal breaks are uninterrupted, unpaid 30minute breaks to which every employee is legally entitled. Workers have a right to at least a 30minute meal break or each 6 hours worked in a calendar day. 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. If you work at least 3.5 hours in a day, you are to be given one paid 10minute rest break. Under California's meal break law, the employer must provide employees with an unpaid 30-minute meal break for every 5 hours they work. What Does California Law Say About Rest and Meal Breaks? Like meal breaks, federal law does not require rest breaks.