Hours Worked: California

Federal law and guidance on this subject should be reviewed together with this section.

Author: Jennifer K. Achtert, Fisher Phillips

Summary

• Employers may round employees' working time under certain circumstances. See De Minimis Time and Rounding.
• Employers must provide certain employees meal breaks, rest breaks and breastfeeding breaks. See Break Periods.
• Time spent waiting to work or on call counts as hours worked. See Waiting Time and On-Call Time.
• Employees must be paid for all hours that an employee is engaged in travel, regardless of whether they are during "normal" working hours or in connection with a one-day or longer assignment. See Travel Time.
• There are several other working time concerns. See Training, Lectures and Meetings; Sleeping; Activities Before and After a Shift ("Preliminary and Postliminary"); Show-Up Time / Reporting Time; Employees Who Work at Home or Reside at Their Employer's Premises and Day of Rest.
• Los Angeles and San Francisco have requirements pertaining to hours worked. See Local Requirements.