Wage and Hour, Rest and Meal Break, Restaurant Industry

Meal and Rest Break Requirements for New York Restaurants: What Owners Need to Know

Davidoff Hutcher & Citron LLP on 6/6/2025

In the hustle of running a restaurant, it’s easy for meal breaks to slip through the cracks. However, New York law has specific requirements for giving your employees time to eat and rest. Ensuring your staff takes legally...more

FLSA and Wage and Hour Issues for Restaurants

PilieroMazza PLLC on 12/14/2021

The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and state or local wage-and-hour statutes establish federal and state minimum wage, overtime pay, and recordkeeping requirements. All restaurants are subject to either the FLSA or state or...more

New California Wage & Hour Laws for 2022

Fox Rothschild LLP on 10/29/2021

The close of the 2021 California legislative session brings forth a series of new wage and hour laws that impact employers and take effect on January 1, 2022. Assembly Bill (AB) 286 addresses food delivery, including...more

WPI Wage Watch: Minimum Wage & Overtime Updates (March Edition)

Littler on 4/2/2018

Never mind the Ides of March, for employers with tipped employees: beware the federal budget process. Presumably no one’s March Madness bracket had federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) amendments going to, let alone...more

California Supreme Court Puts to Rest Labor Code Interpretation

Carlton Fields on 5/10/2017

Like the Good Lord, California employees are guaranteed one day of rest every workweek under a new California Supreme Court decision, which will have broad implications for employers in California, especially those in the...more

NYC Joins the Pre-Trump Push for Employee Work Schedule Protections

Genova Burns LLC on 12/20/2016

New York City has joined several other cities, including San Francisco and Seattle, introducing legislation that offers more predictable, stable work schedules for employees in low-wage occupations. The legislation generally...more

Being on Call in California Does Not Impede on Rest Breaks

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 3/2/2015

Augustus v. ABM Security Services, Inc., No. B243788 (filed December 31, 2014, pub. ord. January 29, 2015)): In its recently published decision, the California Court of Appeal held that on-call rest breaks are permissible. In...more

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