California employers continue to struggle with how to comply with their obligation to provide meal and rest periods to their non-exempt employees. Although the California Supreme Court’s ...

The Supreme Court reasoned that meal and rest period premiums compensate employees for “hardships” that “include rendering work” and therefore that they could be viewed as wages.

Meal periods should be off the clock and unpaid; however, rest periods must be paid and on the clock. Additionally, employees must be permitted to leave the employer’s premises during meal periods.

Teamsters applaud FMCSA's consideration of petitions for waivers to preempt California and Washington state’s Meal and Rest Break (MRB) rules.

Meal and rest breaks – the difference A meal break is different from rest breaks and should not be interchanged with each other. Like the term itself, a meal break is a period in an employee’s shift ...

A: Yes, California employers are required to provide meal and rest periods to their employees, but the law provides options when there is only one employee on duty.

So essentially, an employee must take a 30-minute unpaid meal break for each continuous five-hour period they work. Secondly, in terms of rest period, the law states the following: ...

The U.S. Supreme Court rejected challenges by trucking companies Monday to a century-old California law entitling thousands of truck drivers to meal breaks and rest periods. The court denied a ...

On July 9, 2014, a Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that California truck drivers are entitled to meal breaks and rest periods under California state law despite federal deregulation of ...

Although it determined previously that federal regulations regarding commercial motor vehicle drivers pre-empted state meal and rest break rules, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is ...