Many employer force employee to work for long hours despite being denied time for meal or rest breaks
If you have been working regularly over five hours daily without lunch breaks and your employer is denying meal breaks, you may file an unpaid wages lawsuit. Also, if you are to file an unpaid wages lawsuit and need to look for another job, your prospective employer should not take any adverse action against you because of filing a claim. But any successful wages lawsuit will depend on how an employee knows their legal rights.
Unpaid Wages For Allegedly Unpaid Meal Breaks
If your employer requires you to work such that you don’t have time to take meal breaks, your employer must pay for such time. According to the law on employee lunch breaks in California, an employee who takes on-duty meals has a legal right to get compensated for such time.
Failure to pay workers for all hours worked, including missed meal breaks or interrupted breaks, should result in unpaid overtime. If you are not entitled to pay, then your meal period should be “bona fide.” This requires that an employee is relieved of their duties to have a meal or rest. Usually, 30 minutes are enough to constitute a bona fide meal period. There are many ways your employer may violate labor laws. They include: