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The California Supreme Court has ruled an employer cannot round the time an employee spends on their meal break to the nearest preset fraction of an hour. The court further held that time records showing noncompliant meal periods raise a rebuttable presumption of meal period violations.
Meal Breaks: The Basics
A California employer generally must provide nonexempt employees with the opportunity to take an uninterrupted 30-minute unpaid meal period no later than the end of the fifth hour of work. Employees may not be discouraged from taking their meal period and must be relieved of all duty.
Where an employee’s meal period is involuntarily missed, delayed, or shortened, the employee must receive one hour of premium pay at the employee’s regular hourly rate. An employer need not police the meal period to keep an employee from choosing to work during their break. The employer need only ensure it provides its employee the opportunity to take a bona fide timely break from du
Published: Tuesday, 09 March 2021 05:55
March 9, 2021 - Los Angeles - The Labor Commissioner’s Office has cited Green Messengers Inc. and Amazon.com Services LLC $6.4 million for
wage theft violations affecting 718 workers. The Santa Ana-based contractor delivered packages for Amazon.com Services in Los Angeles, Orange and San Bernardino counties.
The Labor Commissioner’s Office opened an investigation in June 2019 after receiving a report of labor law violations indicating Green Messenger workers were experiencing wage theft because they were not paid properly and did not receive correct pay statements. Green Messengers provided delivery services for Amazon.com.
The investigation found that from April 2018 to January 2020, delivery drivers were scheduled to work 10-hour workdays and required to finish an Amazon delivery route in those 10 hours using Green Messenger or Amazon vehicles. Due to the number of deliveries, drivers often had to work through their meal and res
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Full Transcript: San Diego State of the County Address 2021
Nathan Fletcher, Chair of the San Diego County Board of Supervisors, delivered his first State of San Diego County Address on Feb 18, 2021
Credit: KFMB Published: 8:01 PM PST February 18, 2021 Updated: 9:49 PM PST February 18, 2021
SAN DIEGO COUNTY, California
Thursday, February 18, 2021
OPENING
I come to you tonight from the County’s Emergency Medical Operations Center.
370 days ago, our county was one of the first in the nation to declare a public health state of emergency on COVID-19 activating this site and others to respond.
From this modest warehouse our region’s massive mobilization was equipped.