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Labor Laws For California Lunch Breaks In North Carolina
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Under California law (IWC Orders and Labor Code Section 512), employees must be provided with no less than a thirty-minute meal period when the work period is more than five hours (more than six hours for employees in the motion picture industry covered by IWC Order 12-2001).
An eight-hour workday is a standardized work schedule in which an employee works for 8 hours per day. An employee who works an eight-hour workday will often work five days a week with two days off. This is sometimes known as a full-time job or working a 9-5, which means working 8 hours a day between 9 am and 5 pm.
The state law requires employers to provide restroom time and sufficient time to eat a meal. If the break is less than 20 minutes in duration, it must be counted as hours worked. Time to use the nearest restroom must be provided within each four consecutive hours of work.
It refers to "being at work", not "actively heads-down working on something". If you come in at 9am, do work, have lunch, make coffee, work more, suffer meetings, work, chat at the water cooler, work again, and leave at 5pm, you're working 9-5.
Generally yes, an employer can require an employee to take lunch or rest breaks (although not required by law in some states) for any given amount of time.
Federal law does not require lunch or coffee breaks.
How many breaks in a 6-hour shift in North Carolina? Minor employees would receive one 30-minute break during a 6-hour shift. No break requirement is in effect for employees ages 16 and over.
Since there is no law around providing meal breaks to adult employees, the ability to waive an employer-offered break would depend on company policy.
The North Carolina Wage and Hour Act does not require mandatory rest breaks or meal breaks for employees 16 years of age or older. The WHA requires breaks only for youths under 16 years of age.
Q: Can you combine meal and rest breaks in California? A: Rest and meal breaks should not be combined. If you have worked for 12 hours, your boss cannot simply give you a 1-hour meal break and say that it qualifies for your entire meal break. Instead, you should be given two separate meal breaks.