California Meal and Rest Breaks: What You Don't Know Can Cost You

Why Should You Attend:

California meal break and rest break laws continue to confound California employers with hourly-paid employees. Without a solid understanding of these specific requirements, your policies and procedures for your non-exempt employees can pose a substantial financial risk to your business.

Employers, managers, supervisors, and human resources professionals should have a sound understanding of California labor laws, 2019, so that they can communicate the legal requirements to their hourly-paid employees. As well, they need to be well-versed so that they can provide non-exempt employees with the opportunities to take their entitled meal and rest periods.

By the end of the course, you will be informed about the California employment law so that you will be better-equipped to assist your company in being California-compliant with meal and rest periods.

Areas Covered in the Webinar:

• Understand the basic requirements under California meal break and rest break law.
• Walk through the effects of the California Supreme Court decision of Brinker Restaurant Corporation v. Supervisor Court on meal and rest periods.
• Discuss specific sub-topics pertaining to waivers and on-duty meal periods; rest periods; and, on-call rest periods.
• Review common violations by employers in attempting to follow the law.
• Enumerate the penalties and remedies for violations under the California employment law.
• Review examples of recent settlements.
• Review best practices for compliance.
• Identify resources for further information about the requirements

Who Will Benefit:

• Human Resources
• Leadership
• Payroll
• Labor Compliance professional
• Training and Development staff
• Talent Management staff

Margie Pacheco Faulk
Sr HR Consultant, HR Compliance Solutions

Margie Faulk, PHR, SHRM-CP HR Compliance Solutions, LLC-Compliance Advisor/Speaker/Trainer, is a senior level human resources professional with over 14 years of HR management and compliance experience. A current Compliance Officer for HR Compliance Solutions, Margie has worked as an HR and Compliance advisor for major corporations and small businesses in the small, large, private, public and Non-profit sectors. Margie is bilingual (Spanish) fluent and Bi-cultural.

Margie’s focus has expanded to Global Workplace Compliance in International, multi-state, multi-National, state and local workplace compliance which includes workplace compliance in other countries like the UK, Canada, France, Brazil, China, Africa, Mexico and India, just to name a few.

Margie has created and presented seminars/webinars for many compliance institutes. These national training providers, offer compliance training to HR professionals, business owners and companies interested in having their company compliant with workplace and industry regulations. Margie holds professional human resources certification (PHR) from the HR Certification Institution (HRCI) and SHRM-CP certification from Society for Human Resources Management. Margie is a member of the Society of Corporate Compliance & Ethics (SCCE).

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