In South Carolina, no law gives employees the right to time off to eat lunch (or another meal) or the right to take short breaks during the work day. Workers have a right to at least a 30minute meal break or each 6 hours worked in a calendar day.An additional 30-minute unpaid meal break when working more than 12 hours in a day. A paid 10-minute rest period for every four hours worked. Short rest breaks, which usually 20 minutes or less, must be paid as work time. A. There is no requirement under South Carolina law for an employer to provide employees with breaks or a lunch period. The California Labor Code requires employers to provide non-exempt employees with a 30-minute, uninterrupted, and off-duty break for every 5 hours of work. Employers must authorize and permit uninterrupted rest breaks for all nonexempt employees whose total daily work time is at least 3.5 hours. Federal law does not require lunch or coffee breaks. To answer your headline question, it is never legal for an employer to change your time entries to reflect something that is untrue.