Your Right to Meal and Rest Breaks - Inland Empire Employees
Every day, you go to work and do your best to perform your daily work assignments. You come to work on time, work hard during the day and work a full eight hour day. You dedicate yourself to your job as a matter of pride and responsibility. Yet in spite of your best efforts, you just can't complete your assigned work in the 40 hours you have each work week.
If this sounds familiar, you are not alone. In fact, it is probably not your fault.
Employers throughout the nation are taking aggressive steps during difficult financial times to curb costs and improve their corporate profits. To do so, employers are using a number of carefully devised strategies to cut costs. One of the ways they are cutting the cost of producing goods is by forcing employees to produce more without additional pay.
Basically, employers are asking employees to perform 45 or 50 hours of work in a 40 hour work week. To accomplish their weekly tasks, employees are working off-the-clock. In some cases, employees are even skipping meal and rest periods.
If you are a California employee working in San Bernardino County, Riverside County or anywhere throughout the Inland Empire, you may learn more about your legal rights by contacting Backstrom & Heinrichs. To contact our firm, call us toll-free at 866-264-6543 or contact us online.
Meal and Rest Periods in California
As a California employee, you have certain basic rights guaranteed by California state law. One of the rights you have is the right to adequate meal and rest periods. As a general rule, California employees must receive a 30 minute daily meal period for a shift that is five hours or more. Employees are also entitled to a 10 minute paid rest period for every three and one-half to four hour period they work.
Contact a Labor Law Attorney at Backstrom & Heinrichs
It is important for California employees to know that they have a right to take adequate meal and rest breaks. If you have missed meal breaks and believe your employer has violated your right to take adequate meal and rest breaks, you may have a basis to receive compensation.
If you work in San Bernardino County or Riverside County and your right to adequate meal and rest breaks has been violated, contact an experienced wage and hour lawyer at Backstrom & Heinrichs in San Diego, California.
