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Focus (Forum & Focus)

Jul. 12, 2008

Piece-Meal Rules

The water is murky as to whether employers must force employees to take meal breaks, or must merely make them available, writes Jonathan Fraser Light. - Employment Column

EMPLOYMENT COLUMN

By Jonathan Fraser Light
This article appears on Page 6

      California employers and their employment and business law counsel have been hit with several recent meal break opinions from California Superior and federal courts. The water is murky as to whether employers must force employees to take meal breaks, or must merely make them available. The safest course, regardless of where the courts may ...

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