Labor/Employment,
California Supreme Court
Feb. 26, 2021
Employers cannot round workers meal break times, state Supreme Court rules
In reversing lower courts, Justice Goodwin H. Liu wrote, “The precision of the time requirements set out in Labor Code ... is at odds with the imprecise calculations that rounding involves.”
Employers cannot round their employees' time punches for meal breaks up or down, and records showing employees did not take the breaks they're entitled to raises a rebuttable presumption that the employer engaged in meal period violations, the state Supreme Court said Thursday.
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