CDA encourages its members to take a proactive approach to employee meal and rest break compliance. Doing so requires an understanding of the regulations involved and communicating with employees about them.
When it comes to compliance with employment laws, the most frequently misunderstood regulations in California’s dental practices are those regarding meal and rest breaks.
The California Department of Industrial Relations has very specific guidelines for following the laws that regulate wages, hours and working conditions. These include allowing designated times for hourly employees to have respite from the workday in the form of scheduled meal and rest times. Recently, California clarified that employers who fail to comply with rest breaks must provide monetary compensation.
As of May 23, 2022, the Supreme Court of California held in the case Naranjo v. Spectrum Security Services, Inc. that employers must treat premium pay for noncompliant meal periods and rest breaks like wages. As a result, California employers may now face substantial penalties if they are found in violation of wage laws for failing to provide timely premium pay compensation for missed meal and break times.
A brief explanation of this regulation is that employees are owed “premium pay” when they miss a meal break or a rest break. Labor Code section 226.7 provides that if an employer fails to provide a meal, rest or recovery period, the employer must pay the employee one additional hour of pay at...
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