On Feb. 25, 2021, the California Supreme Court issued its much-anticipated decision in Donohue v. AMN Services, LLC. The opinion answers two important questions: (1) whether “employers can[] engage in the practice of rounding time punches – that is, adjusting the hours that an employee has actually worked to the nearest preset time increment – in the meal period context,” and (2) whether time records that do not show that a facially compliant meal period was taken “raise a rebuttable presumption of meal period violations….”
Donohue – Rethinking California Meal Period Claims
