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Orange County Employment Law Attorneys
Representing Employees When Employers Deny Meal and Rest Breaks
California law makes clear that employees are entitled to a 30-minute meal break for every 5 or more hours worked. Employers are responsible for keeping written records to verify that lunch or dinner breaks were provided.
Has your employer routinely failed to allow you to take the meal break you are entitled to? Talk to an attorney. Perhaps you staff a gasoline station or a parking lot, and your employer expects you to work through your meal breaks and rest breaks for the sake of the business. It is, in fact, the employer's responsibility to instruct you to take breaks and to keep written records of them.
In addition to a meal break, your employer should give you a rest break of 10 minutes for every four hours that you work. Ten minutes should be enough time for you to use the restroom, make personal phone calls, smoke a cigarette outside or simply relax and rest frazzled nerves. Thirty minutes at lunchtime or dinnertime should allow you to eat your meal without work interruptions — because you should not be working during your meal break.
Clients of the law offices of Keegan & Baker, LLP, have obtained financial compensation for unpaid wages in connection with meal times and rest breaks that were not provided over a period of time. We help Californians throughout Orange County and beyond bring both individual lawsuits and file class action lawsuits. Class actions can be a cost-effective method for each employee to receive compensation for missed meals or breaks at work.
Call or e-mail one of our Orange County employment lawyers to schedule a consultation with a lawyer regarding your employer's violation of wage and hour laws concerning meal and rest breaks on the job in the Los Angeles or San Diego area.
