In order to avoid wage and hour liability, employers need to be sure they are complying with all the relevant minimum wage, overtime, and other wage- and benefit-related regulations.
Providing hourly employees with unpaid meal breaks may seem like a straightforward thing to do, and it is done in thousands of workplaces on a daily basis.
For many employers, properly calculating overtime can feel like an unending process. Factoring in meal and break times can be complicated since meal times are generally unpaid and breaks are paid time.
