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Under IWC Wage Order 12 and California Labor Code section 512, a meal period must be provided for any shift exceeding five (5) hours, not six hours

Under California Labor Code section 512(a) and Wage Order 12, a second meal period must be provided for shifts exceeding ten hours (unless waived in accordance with the statute)

Although Donohue dealt specifically with the practice of rounding time entries to the nearest predetermined increment, rather than with auto-deduction practices directly, the Court's reasoning articulates a principle of broad applicability: an employer's timekeeping practices must not systematically favor the employer at the expense of employees

The principle from Donohue — that a timekeeping methodology must not systematically disadvantage employees — applies by analogy to auto-deduction practices with considerable force

• The mechanism must be communicated

Even where a formal exception-reporting mechanism exists, it must be effectively communicated to employees