California Employment Law Refresher: Meal Periods, Rest Periods, and Premiums (Part 3)

Labor Code section 226.7 sets forth an employer’s obligation to make premium payments for the failure to provide meal periods or authorize and permit rest and recovery periods. Court decisions interpreting this section and other provisions of the Labor Code have defined the manner in which that premium payment is calculated, the statute of limitations for asserting such claims, and whether premium payments trigger other penalties.