Meal Waivers

 

In California, employers are required to provide non-exempt employees with a meal break of at least 30 minutes for every five hours of work, unless the workday is no more than six hours and the employee and employer agree to waive the meal break. The waiver must be in writing and signed by both the employer and employee.

If the workday is more than six hours, an employee may waive their second meal break if the first meal break was not waived and the total workday is no more than 12 hours. Again, the waiver must be in writing and signed by both the employer and employee.

It's important to note that meal break waivers are strictly regulated by California law, and there are specific requirements that employers must follow to ensure that the waivers are valid. For example, the waiver must be voluntary, and the employee must have the opportunity to revoke the waiver at any time. If an employer fails to comply with these requirements, the waiver may be considered invalid, and the employer may be liable for meal break premium pay, which is an additional hour of pay at the employee's regular rate of pay for each day that a meal break is not provided.

 

1. Workforce > Employees > Select employee > Meal Wavers tab > Add > Set the effective date and click on the checkbox. We don't recommend going back more than a week on the effective date. 

Doing this step will automatically add a meal waiver when applicable to the employee for the first or second meal but not both. Do this for Future Work assignments. 

 

2. Work assignment > Time  > Worklog Actions > Add meal waiver > Specific or all employees > Time can be left as 12 am 

This scenario will only add the meal waiver to the selected employees on the specific work assignment. Do this on any existing work assignments.