{"id":533,"date":"2021-07-27T11:20:07","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T15:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eth.lnc.mybluehost.me\/eng\/?p=533"},"modified":"2021-07-27T11:20:11","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T15:20:11","slug":"california-supreme-court-announces-new-standard-that-meal-and-rest-period-premiums-must-be-paid-at-same-regular-rate-of-pay-used-to-calculate-overtime-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/2021\/07\/27\/california-supreme-court-announces-new-standard-that-meal-and-rest-period-premiums-must-be-paid-at-same-regular-rate-of-pay-used-to-calculate-overtime-payments\/","title":{"rendered":"California Supreme Court Announces New Standard That Meal and Rest Period Premiums Must Be Paid at Same \u201cRegular Rate of Pay\u201d Used to Calculate Overtime Payments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.laboremploymentlawblog.com\/2021\/07\/articles\/wage-and-hour\/california-supreme-court-meal-rest-period-premiums\/#page=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/eth.lnc.mybluehost.me\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/sm_california_law-1200-1-1024x536.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-328\" width=\"300\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The California Supreme Court\u2019s decision issued on July 15, 2021 clarifies that California employers must pay one-hour meal and rest period premiums to employees who report that they were not provided compliant meal or rest periods. The pay must be at the same FLSA \u201cregular rate\u201d that is used to calculate overtime premiums, not at the employee\u2019s normal \u201cbase\u201d hourly rate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Sheppard Mullin:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.laboremploymentlawblog.com\/2021\/07\/articles\/wage-and-hour\/california-supreme-court-meal-rest-period-premiums\/#page=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">California Supreme Court Announces New Standard That Meal and Rest Period Premiums Must Be Paid at Same \u201cRegular Rate of Pay\u201d Used to Calculate Overtime Payments<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The California Supreme Court\u2019s decision issued on July 15, 2021 clarifies that California employers must pay one-hour meal and rest period premiums to employees who report that they were not provided compliant meal or rest periods. The pay must be at the same FLSA \u201cregular rate\u201d that is used to calculate overtime premiums, not at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":534,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions\/534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}