Make sure employees take their meal breaks or end up in a lawsuit if you don’t

Recent court rulings in California have said that companies cannot pressure employees to skip meal breaks or prevent them from taking such breaks. Companies could end up in law-suit if they prevent their employees from taking meal breaks especially in states like California where the laws surrounding meals are ambiguous and confusing. When laws are left open to interpretation, there will be employees who’ll jump at the chance to profit. One way to eliminate that threat in such cases: Consider requiring employees to take breaks.

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Do you make workers take breaks? Might be time you did