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Focus (Forum & Focus)

Sep. 1, 2007

Lunch Money

Employment Column - By Craig J. Ackermann - Employers that don't adequately ensure meal breaks for their employees are beginning to pay the price - and it's in the millions.

EMPLOYMENT COLUMN

By Craig J. Ackermann
     
      In California, all employees (whether unionized or not) are entitled by law to a 30-minute meal break for every five hours of work. What many employees don't realize, however, is that if an employer fails to provide the required 30-minute meal break, the employee is entitled under Sections 226.7 and 512 of the Labor Code and the applicable Industrial W...

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