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No. Your employee may not legally waive his rights to receive required rest and meal periods. To be in compliance, you must require your employee to take all mandated breaks, and you may even need to discipline an employee who refuses to do so.

Non-Factory Workers are entitled to a 30-minute lunch break between a.m. and p.m. for shifts six hours or longer that extend over that period and a 45-minute meal break at the time midway between the beginning and end of the shift for all shifts of more than six hours starting between p.m. and a.m.

New York law does not require employers to give employees a rest break. However, for employers who opt to offer a rest break, it must be paid (up to 20 minutes), and it counts toward overtime requirements under federal law.

California requires employers to provide employees ten-minute rest breaks for every four hours (or major fraction) worked. Anything over two hours is a major fraction of a four-hour period.

Unfortunately, as the employer, in most circumstances you cannot require your employees to combine their rest breaks. The California Supreme Court in Brinker Restaurant Corp. v.

These two court decisions require California employers to carefully draft rest break policies. Rest breaks should not be combined, either with each other or with meal periods. Nor should a ten-minute rest break be divided into smaller parts (such as two five-minute breaks).

Employers must also provide a non-paid meal break or lunch break of at least 30 minutes to employees who work 6 to 8 hours in one work period. A meal break is not required if the work period is less than 6 hours. Additional meal breaks are required to be provided to employees who works 14 hours or more in a shift.

An employee has the right to an uninterrupted break of at least 20 minutes if they work more than 6 hours in a day. The employee has the right to take this break: away from their workstation (for example, away from their desk) at a time that's not the very start or end of the working day.

Can I waive my lunch break in California? Yes, you and your employer may mutually agree to waive your lunch break. In other words, you can relinquish your right to have a lunch break as long as your shift is six hours or less. Meal breaks can only be waived by mutual consent of the employee and employer.

Employees are entitled to a 30-minute break between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. for shifts that cover that time span and are more than 6 consecutive hours.