Posts Tagged ‘employee lunch breaks’
NO ATTORNEY FEES AWARDS FOR MEAL BREAK AND REST PERIOD LAWSUITS
The California Supreme Court has promptly followed its game-changing Brinker decision with another important ruling, specifically limiting the rights of workers to collect attorney fees from their employers in lawsuits over allegedly missed meal breaks and rest periods. As we reported in “Brinker: California’s Meal Break Breakthrough, Employers are No Longer the Lunch Police,” California […]
BRINKER’S NEW RULES FOR MEAL AND REST BREAKS
The Necessity of Management Training While the California Supreme Court’s Brinker decision (April 12, 2012) supplied vital and sensible guidelines that do not require employers to act as a “police” authority confirming workers take their meal and rest breaks, the law will still impose penalties on a business if its supervisors and managers, for lack […]
BRINKER EMPLOYEES MAY SKIP BREAKS
Yet, Greater Flexibility Requires Greater Documentation The recent California Supreme Court Brinker decision (April 12, 2012) on the standards for providing meal and rest breaks now permits greater flexibility on scheduling, including employer ability to provide workers the option to skip breaks from time-to-time. However, an employer should take care to institute and maintain written […]
EMPLOYEE MEAL AND REST PERIODS
Are California Employers Responsible if Workers Skip Them? California companies must provide non-union workers with at least a 30 minute unpaid meal break between shifts and at least a ten minute paid break during each shift. See, “Employee Meal Periods and Rest Breaks, California’s Basic Requirements for R&R,” April 8, 2011. However, even though the […]