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• What If My Employer Won't Let Me Take My Meal Breaks?
• Unpaid Wages - Your Employer May Owe You A Lot of Money
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• Auto Deductions for Meal Periods - Auto Deduct Meal Breaks
• Can a California employee waive or release their rights to unpaid wages?

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What if I don't get my meal time in California?

Our San Diego Wage and Hour Attorneys have packed this website full of pages of free information, which we constantly update. Use our website to research your Wage and Hour injury case. You will see that we have an assortment of informative and relevant wage and hour articles.

Currently, a case is pending before the California Supreme Court - Brinker v. Superior Court - in which the Court will determine what an employer must do to "provide" a meal period. The Turley Law Firm is one of the main firms representing the over 60,000 current and former hourly employees in Brinker.

Employers argue that to "provide" a meal period, all that is required is to make it available to employees, which, according to employers, is satisfied through providing a paper policy to employees advising them of the meal period requirement when working over 5 hours and/or 10 hours. No doubt you have seen such a policy in your employment.

The position taken by the employees in Brinker is whenever a meal period is not received when the law requires one, the employer has failed to provide a meal period in accordance with California law, and the employer owes the employee an hour's worth of pay.

Although what it takes to "provide" a meal period will be decided in the near future, this much seems to be true. An employer who does nothing more than provide a paper policy advising employees of their meal period rights, and who knows or should know that employees are routinely not receiving meal periods has likely not provided a meal period under either side of the Brinker coin.

Therefore, if you are a California hourly employee who rarely receives full 30 minute meal periods and your employer has done nothing more than provide you a piece of paper about meal periods, you are likely being cheated an hour's worth of wages each workday.

You Can Ask Us A Legal Question For Free

Many attorneys charge hundreds of dollars for an hour of their time. We don't. We know you can't afford to pay hundreds of dollars to have an attorney answer your questions. This is especially true if your employer is not paying your all of your earned wages.

So this is what we offer here: If you have a legal question about Wage and Hour or your pay, and you want our advice - - we will answer the question for free. With no obligation.

Just fill out the contact form and tell us about the problem and we will provide a no cost response.*

* First, although no attorney client relationship is being created by us answering your question; we still consider our communications to be confidential. Meaning, we will not reveal them to any other person or entity. We will not provide your name and/or information to any other person and/or entity. We treat your privacy very seriously.

Second, This Free Legal Advice option does not apply to persons whom already have a lawyer. If you have the right lawyer, then they should be able to answer these questions.

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The Turley Law Firm
626 Broadway, Suite 625
San Diego, CA 92101
Phone: (619) 234-2833
Fax: (619) 234-4048
Toll Free: 866-963-0540

The San Diego, California personal injury law firm of The Turley Law Firm serves clients across  Southern California area. We give you straight talk about your legal options. We have handled cases from San Diego to Imperial Beach to Oceanside to Escondido to El Cajon, everywhere in between, such as: Alpine, Camp Pendleton, Cardiff, Carlsbad, Chula Vista, Coronado,  Del Mar, Eastlake, Encinitas, La Mesa, La Costa, La Jolla, Lakeside, Lemon Grove, Mission Bay, NAS San Diego, National City, Naval Station San Diego, North Island, North County, Pacific Beach, Point Loma, Port of San Diego, Poway, Ramona, Rancho Bernardo, Rancho Santa Fe, San Marcos, San Diego Harbor, Santee, Solana Beach, South Bay, Spring Valley, Vista.

We handle cases across California, including: Riverside County, San Bernardino County, Orange County, Imperial County, Los Angeles County, and Ventura County, Colorado River, Mexico, Cabo, Pacific Ocean and all the Oceans and waterways across California and the World.

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