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Client Alert
The DLSE Issues Final Proposed Meal Period Regulations
January 03, 2005
Kirby Wilcox and E. Jeffrey Grube
Through its proposed regulations, the DLSE clarifies its prior - often conflicting - enforcement positions on California's meal period requirements. The regulations closely track interpretations advocated for years by the employer community and, for the most part, effect a more rational set of rules that grant more meal-period flexibility to employers and employees alike.