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If your boss doesn't comply with break law requirements, they are required to pay you one extra hour of regular pay for each day on which a meal break violation occurred, and another extra hour of regular pay for each day on which a rest break violation occurred.

An attestation is a way to confirm, witness, validate or authenticate that an employee has received up to date and accurate information or training concerning company policies that he or she will be required to perform. The process of certification often involves many employee attestations.

Unless a collective bargaining agreement or a few limited exceptions apply, most employees who work in California for more than five hours per day must be provided with at least a 30-minute meal period.

For each workday that you fail to provide an employee a meal break as required, you owe the employee one additional hour of pay at the employee's regular rate of pay. The additional hour of pay is a wage owed to the employee. Employees have up to three years to file a claim for unpaid wages.

An employee who is not provided with the full 30-minutes for a meal break, or the full-10 minutes for a rest break, is entitled to the penalty as well. The maximum penalty for missed meal breaks and missed rest breaks is two hours of pay per day, no matter how many meal or rest breaks were missed in the day.

It is the policy of [Company Name] to comply with state and federal laws regarding meals and breaks. All employees are permitted a 15-minute paid rest break for each four-hour work period. Breaks are not permitted at either the beginning or end of the workday to offset arrival and departure times.

Under California meal break law (which is much more generous to employees than federal labor law), if you are a non-exempt worker, you are entitled to a 30-minute uninterrupted, duty-free meal break if you work more than 5 hours in a workday.