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7(c), if an employer fails to provide an employee a meal period in accordance with an applicable statute or order of the Industrial Welfare Commission, the employer must pay the employee one additional hour of pay at the employee's regular rate of compensation for each workday that the meal period is not provided

5th 58, the California Supreme Court specifically addressed the interaction between timekeeping practices and meal period compliance, holding that rounding of meal period time punches is impermissible and that employers must record actual meal period start and stop times

1 (manufacturing), employers must authorize and permit employees to take a net 10-minute paid rest break for every four hours worked, or major fraction thereof

The employer's obligation is to "authorize and permit" rest breaks — the employer need not ensure that the employee actually takes the break, but must make the break available and must not impede or discourage the employee from taking it

If an employer fails to provide a rest period in accordance with the applicable wage order, the employer must pay the employee one additional hour of pay at the employee's regular rate of compensation for each workday that the rest period is not provided

Mendoza (2023) has clarified that the injury requirement demands more than a mere technical violation; the employee must show that they could not promptly and easily determine the information the wage statement was required to contain