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Perspective

Nov. 5, 2010

Employers Do Not Have to Babysit Their Employees, for Now.

A state appellate court beats the state Supreme Court to the punch in a recent employment decision. By Frances Rogers of Liebert Cassidy Whitmore.


By Frances Rogers


Must California employers who provide meal and rest breaks to employees ensure that the employees actually, physically take duty-free meal or rest breaks? A California Court of Appeal recently held that employers are not required to ensure that their employees actually take their meal or rest breaks. This is a provocative ruling since the same legal question is currently pending before the state Supreme Court.


In Hernandez v. Chipto...

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