Aside from the basic rules around unpaid meal breaks and paid rest periods, California employers must also ensure that they follow applicable industry-specific regulations and exemptions. Here are some examples
For lunch breaks, for example, which often last 30 minutes or more, the employer often won’t need to pay the employees while they are on this break, but the employees also have free time during it. The FLSA is more about making sure employees are paid for the work they do. The ...
Alaska defaults to federal law regarding breaks for workers aged 18 and over. If an employer chooses to provide a break, it must be paid only if it lasts less than 20 minutes. Breaks lasting longer than 30 minutes are classified as meal periods and do not need to be paid as long as t...
Break and Meal Laws in Tennessee Federal law does not require employers to offer breaks. However, if employees are offered short breaks during the day for rest, they must be paid for these break times. A short rest break is defined as a break ranging from five to 20 minutes. The majority...
According toArticle 25 of Federal Law No. 8 of 1980, juveniles can work amaximum of six hours per day, with one or more breaks for meals, rest or prayers. The break time must be at least one hour Article 23 of Federal Law No.8 of 1980states that juveniles are not allowed to work...
For example, if an employee worked eight hours without a break, he would have missed two rest breaks and one meal break. The penalty would be two extra hours of pay, one for denied rest breaks and one for denied lunch breaks. The employee can file a wage claim with the Division of La...
Oftentimes when a conflict breaks out, you are tempted to side with the stronger party, or the one that offers you apparent advantages in an alliance. This is risky business. First, it is often difficult to foresee which side will prevail in the long run. But even if you guess right an...
Now that the scurrying around and worrying relative to developments impacting the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”) that were coming at us with laser speed are on a slow simmer, I can turn my attention back to my multi-part series on Subchapter S. Don’t worry, I am not abandoning my...
While the federal tax code may be complicated, state tax laws can be just as convoluted. Read about these twelve strange state tax laws and how they are generating tax income in ways that are both bizarre and entertaining.
The whole south whispers if the least thing breaks out. In one town in Georgia a fight started in the colored section of the town. So great is the tension that the minute it started, the railway engine on the train began to toot, the air-raid sirens went off as if there was an ...