Rest Break

Employers must authorize and permit paid rest breaks for all nonexempt employees who work at least 3.5 hours. Employees must be offered rest breaks at the rate of 10 “net” minutes for every four hours worked or “major fraction thereof,” which means anything more than two hours.¹

Alert content: The Wage Orders require a rest break duration of “net” 10 minutes. This has been interpreted by the DLSE to mean that the rest break begins when the employee reaches an area away from the workstation that is appropriate for rest. In other words, if the rest area is at a distance from the workstation, the time required for the rest break will need to be more