06/08/2026
A four-minute-late lunch in California can cost a full hour of premium pay. And it is rarely the schedule that causes it.
The expensive part hides in the overlap. Meal-break timing, daily overtime, and local Fair Workweek rules all stack on top of each other, and the gap between what you scheduled and what payroll actually owes is where the money leaks. It usually surfaces months later as a wage claim.
If you run payroll in California, when did you last check your meal-break timing against actual clock-in data?
We walk through where the leaks happen, and the one report that catches them before payroll closes:
https://na2.hubs.ly/H061xkL0
