Meal and Rest Break Laws by State

Where states require breaks beyond the federal default — hover any state for the specific rule.

Get break law wrong and you owe back pay, premium-pay penalties, and — in California — three years of damages plus attorney fees per affected employee. Break law looks deceptively simple ("give workers a lunch"), but it's the #1 source of wage-and-hour class actions in the United States. Walmart's total exposure in the Magadia case reached approximately $172 million (including attorney fees and post-judgment interest) on a ~$102 million California trial-court judgment. Healthcare systems routinely settle auto-deduction cases for six figures. The rules vary state by state, the penalties stack, and there is no federal break requirement to fall back on when state law is silent.

This guide covers the federal floor, every state with break requirements, the industry-specific rules (healthcare, trucking, food service), minor labor laws, the auto-deduction trap that creates most class actions, and the rules for multi-state and remote workers.

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Quick reference — which states have what

• States with statewide meal break requirements: California, New York, Washington, Oregon, Colorado, Nevada, Kentucky, Illinois, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Delaware, Tennessee, Rhode Island, Minnesota (effective Jan 1, 2026). Plus minor-specific rules in nearly every state.
• States with statewide rest break requirements: California, Washington, Oregon, Colorado, Nevada, Kentucky, Minnesota (effective Jan 1, 2026). (Most rest-break rules are state-level, not federal.)
• States with premium-pay penalties for missed breaks: California (1 hour per missed meal or rest), Washington (healthcare only, $5K–$20K civil penalty).
• Industries with their own rules: healthcare (CA, WA, IL), trucking (federal DOT preempts state), food service (waiver and tip-credit nuances).
• States that follow federal only: the rest. Texas, Florida, Georgia, Arizona, North Carolina, and most southern + mountain-west states have no statewide break requirement beyond the FLSA paid-vs-unpaid rules.

The 5 Most Expensive Break Mistakes

Before the rule tables, here's what actually gets employers sued. Every item below has produced six- or seven-figure judgments in the past five years.

1. Auto-deducting meal breaks with no exception-capture mechanism. The single biggest source of break litigation. The employer's system subtracts 30 minutes from each long shift; employees actually work through it; no one captures the exception. Lubbock County Hospital paid $119,175 to 197 ER workers; North Sunflower Medical Center paid $201,436 to 110 workers for the same pattern. Detailed in its own section below.

2. Treating "at your desk" as a valid unpaid meal break. Federal law requires complete relief from duty for a meal period to be unpaid. If your employee eats while answering emails, taking calls, or watching a register, the entire period becomes compensable. This routinely cascades into overtime — see our overtime rules by state guide for how the math compounds.

3. Missing premium pay on the pay stub. In California, premium pay for missed, short, or late breaks is legally classified as wages. It must appear on the pay stub, factor into the regular rate used for overtime calculations, and be paid at separation. Skipping the line item turns a $1/day break violation into a separate wage-statement violation under Labor Code §226 — $50 first violation, $100 per pay period after, up to $4,000 per employee. See our pay stub requirements by state guide for the full §226 framework.

4. Failing to record meal periods. California time records showing missed, short, or late breaks create a rebuttable presumption of a violation. No records → the employer carries the burden of proving the break was offered. Plaintiffs' firms run database queries against time records looking for shifts without meal punches; each one is a presumptive violation. The remedy is good records, not silence — see our recordkeeping requirements guide for the §516.2(a) records that defeat the rebuttable presumption and the §516.5 retention window.

5. Using adult break policies for minors. Most states require breaks for under-18 employees that aren't required for adults. Federal child labor violations carry penalties up to $15,138 per offense plus criminal exposure for willful violations. Many state schemes double these for repeat offenders. Restaurants and grocery employers with high teen turnover are routine targets.

Federal Baseline (FLSA)

The Fair Labor Standards Act does not mandate meal or rest breaks. When employers do provide breaks, the FLSA dictates how they must be compensated.

Break duration	Compensation rule
Short breaks (5–20 minutes)	Must be paid. Count as hours worked and affect overtime calculations.
Meal periods (30+ minutes)	May be unpaid, but only if the employee is completely relieved of all duties.

"Completely relieved of all duties" — the phrase that decides cases

The phrase carries more weight than it looks. There is no "half on duty" designation in the FLSA — either the break is fully off-duty or it's paid time. The following all routinely fail the test:

• Eating at a workstation while monitoring email, phones, or chat — even passively. Courts have held that any expectation to respond converts the time to compensable.
• Remaining "reachable" via pager, radio, or phone during a meal period. Healthcare and security sector cases are full of this pattern.
• Supervising children, equipment, or a public space (cashiers, daycare workers, security posts). The supervisory duty itself defeats the break.
• Being required to stay on premises in case of need. Federal law allows requiring premises, but only if the employee is fully relieved during the break. Most courts apply this narrowly.

The defensive posture is operational: make sure the meal period is offered, document that it was taken, and capture exceptions when work intrudes. Auto-deduction without exception capture (covered below) is the most common way this fails in practice.

Recent changes (2024–2026)

Five events have shaped break compliance since 2018 — the 2018 FMCSA preemption, Illinois ODRISA expansion in 2023, the 2024 federal child-labor penalty bump, Washington HB 1155 maturing in healthcare, and Minnesota's 2026 statewide meal/rest break expansion.

2026

• Jan 1, 2026 — Minnesota meal and rest break law expanded (2025 legislative session). Minn. Stat. 177.253 (rest) and 177.254 (meal) now require employers to allow a paid rest break of at least 15 minutes for every 4 consecutive hours worked, and an unpaid meal break of at least 30 minutes for shifts of 6+ consecutive hours. Pre-2026, Minnesota's rest-break requirement was limited under Minnesota Rule 5200.0120; the 2025 amendments codified and broadened the statewide rule.

2024

• 2024 — Federal child labor penalty raised to $15,138 per offense. 2024 inflation adjustment. Multi-employee minor-labor break violations now produce six-figure penalties quickly.
• 2019, settled 2024 — Washington HB 1155 fully enforced. Healthcare missed-break premium pay is now baked into hospital systems statewide; the prior compliance lag has closed.

2023

• Jan 1, 2023 — Illinois ODRISA amendments take effect (PA 102-0828). A 20-minute meal break is now required for 7.5+ hour shifts AND an additional break for every 4.5 hours worked beyond that. Previously only one break was required.

2018

• 2018 — FMCSA preempts state break rules for interstate truckers. The 2018 determination has been upheld in subsequent litigation. State break law no longer applies to interstate CDL drivers — federal Hours of Service rules govern.

California — the strictest state

California is the compliance benchmark for break law in the United States. Most workforce management software builds its break features around California requirements first, then adapts for other states. If your operation crosses state lines, the practical advice from most employment attorneys is the same: apply California rules everywhere unless you have a clear reason not to.

Meal breaks

• 30-minute unpaid meal break required if working more than 5 hours.
• Must start before the end of the 5th hour.
• Second 30-minute meal break if working more than 10 hours (before end of 10th hour).
• Must be uninterrupted and duty-free.
• First meal can be waived by mutual consent if the shift is 6 hours or less.
• Second meal can be waived if the shift is 12 hours or less and the first meal was not waived.

Rest breaks

• One 10-minute paid rest break for every 4 hours worked (or major fraction thereof).
• Should be taken near the middle of the work period.
• Do not need to be individually recorded, but the employer must authorize and permit them.

Premium pay (penalties)

• 1 hour of pay per day for each missed, short, or late meal break.
• 1 hour of pay per day for each missed rest break.
• Maximum 2 hours of premium pay per day (one for meal violations, one for rest violations).
• Premiums are legally classified as wages — they must appear on pay stubs, be paid at separation, and factor into the regular rate used for overtime.

Record-keeping

• Employers must record all meal periods taken. Rest breaks need not be individually recorded.
• Time records showing missed, short, or late breaks create a rebuttable presumption of a violation — the employer must prove they offered the break.
• 3-year statute of limitations for premium pay claims; 4 years under unfair competition law.

Things California employers consistently miss

• The 5th-hour rule is hard. The first meal must start before the end of the 5th hour — not just be taken sometime during the shift. An employee who clocks in at 8:00 AM must have started their meal by 1:00 PM. Auditors check this directly against time records; "1:01 PM" is a violation.
• Rest breaks come from a Wage Order calculation, not common sense. The formula: one rest break per "4 hours or major fraction thereof." A 6-hour shift requires 2 rest breaks (4 hours + the "major fraction" of the remaining 2 = 2 breaks total). Employers routinely staff for 1.
• Premium pay must appear on the pay stub as wages. Listing it as a one-line catch-all ("Adjustment") creates a separate Labor Code §226 wage-statement violation worth $50 first violation and $100/pay-period after, up to $4,000 per employee.
• Suitable seating violations stack with break violations. California requires "suitable seats" for employees whose work permits sitting. A retail-class action can combine missed-break premium pay with suitable-seating penalties for the same shifts.

Compute the §226.7 premium pay owed for a given shift — and the annualized exposure.

Try a scenario

Compliant 8h shiftall breaks taken on timeLate first mealone category violationMissed meal + restsboth categories — daily cap

Your inputs

Shift length (hours)Hourly rate ($)

First meal break (required after a 5h shift)

Taken before end of 5th hour (compliant)Taken after the 5th hour (late)Missed entirely

Rest breaks taken (2 required for a 8h shift)

Premium pay owed under Labor Code §226.7

$20.00/ day

1 hour at $20.00 regular rate

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Violations

• Rest2 of 2 required rest breaks not taken

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Annualized exposure

Per 5-day work week

$100.00

Per year (250 work days)

$5000

Per year × 10 employees

$50000

Assumes the pattern repeats daily. Real exposure compounds with the §203 waiting-time penalty at separation + Labor Code §226 wage-statement violations (premium pay must appear on the pay stub).

Models Labor Code §226.7 + IWC Wage Orders. Waivers (first meal waivable by mutual consent if shift ≤ 6h; second meal waivable if shift ≤ 12h + first taken) assumed properly executed when status is “compliant.” Healthcare-sector double-meal waivers, suitable-seating premiums, and the §203 waiting-time penalty cascade aren't calculated here. Read the full methodology →

Other Notable State Laws

The states below have statewide meal and/or rest break requirements that go beyond the federal floor. States not listed (e.g., Texas, Florida, Georgia) follow federal rules — no statewide break requirement.

State	Meal break	Rest break	Notes
New York	30 min for shifts 6+ hours spanning 11am–2pm	Not required	Additional 45-min break for shifts spanning 1pm–6am (factory workers).
Washington	30 min after 5 hours	10 min per 4 hours	Healthcare-specific (HB 1155): fines $5,000–$20,000 per violation, doubling for repeat offenders.
Oregon	30 min for shifts 6+ hours	10 min per 4 hours	Tipped servers can waive the meal break with written consent.
Colorado	30 min for 5+ consecutive hours	10 min per 4 hours	—
Nevada	30 min for 8+ continuous hours	10 min per 4 hours	Applies to employers with 2 or more employees.
Kentucky	Reasonable period for 5+ hours	10 min per 4 hours	—
Illinois	20 min for 7.5+ hour shifts	Not required (adults)	One Day Rest in Seven Act (ODRISA); amended 2023 to require break for every additional 4.5 hours worked.
Massachusetts	30 min for shifts 6+ hours	Not required	Employee may voluntarily work through with written consent.
Connecticut	30 min for 7.5+ hour shifts	Not required	Must occur between the 2nd hour and the last 2 hours. Numerous exemptions (small employers, certain industries).
Delaware	30 min for 7.5+ hour shifts	Not required	Must be taken between the 2nd and last 2 hours of the shift.
Tennessee	30 min for 6+ hour shifts	Not required	Does not apply if nature of work allows employees to take frequent breaks.
Rhode Island	20 min for 6h shifts; 30 min for 8h+ shifts	Not required	Healthcare and assisted living workers covered by separate stricter rules.
Minnesota	30 min for 6+ consecutive hours	15 min paid per 4 hours	Effective Jan 1, 2026 (Minn. Stat. 177.253 rest, 177.254 meal). 2025 legislative-session expansion of the prior rules.

Industry-Specific Rules

Certain industries have their own break frameworks that override or supplement state law. Three are large enough to call out: healthcare, trucking, and food service.

Healthcare

Healthcare workers — especially direct-care staff in hospitals — have the strictest break protections in several states. Patient-care pressure routinely produces missed-break situations, and state legislatures have responded with industry-specific statutes.

• Washington (HB 1155 / RCW 49.12.480, 2019): Hospitals must provide uninterrupted meal and rest periods to direct care employees. Missed breaks require premium pay. Civil penalties: $5,000 to $20,000 per violation; doubled for repeats.
• California (IWC Wage Order 4, 5): Healthcare-specific wage orders apply to hospitals and residential care facilities. Nurses subject to the same meal/rest break requirements as other employees, but enforcement around "you're needed on the floor" pressure has driven six- and seven-figure settlements.
• Illinois Nurse Staffing by Patient Acuity Act: Includes rest period provisions and reporting requirements for hospitals.

Common failure pattern: hospital break policies on paper look compliant, but unit-level practice ("cover for me, I'll cover for you") results in nurses missing breaks routinely. Time-record audits then surface the pattern. The remedy is operational, not policy: enforce breaks at the staffing level.

Trucking and DOT

Commercial motor vehicle drivers are governed by federal Department of Transportation regulations (49 CFR Part 395), which generally preempt state break laws.

• 30-minute break required after 8 consecutive hours of driving (49 CFR 395.3(a)(3)(ii))
• 11-hour daily driving limit within a 14-hour on-duty window
• 10 hours off-duty required between shifts
• 60/70-hour rule: max 60 hours in 7 consecutive days, or 70 in 8

State preemption note. California's strict meal and rest break rules previously applied to interstate truckers, but the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration determined (2018) that they were preempted by federal hours-of-service rules. Intrastate-only drivers may still fall under state rules; the preemption depends on whether the trip crosses state lines.

Food Service and Tipped Workers

Many states allow tipped servers to waive meal breaks with written consent. Some states have shorter break requirements for hospitality workers (15-minute meal periods instead of 30). California makes no industry exception — tipped servers in California are subject to the general meal and rest break rules.

Watch-out for restaurants: "tip-credit" rules interact with break rules. If a tipped server works through a meal break, the unpaid time inflates hours worked, which can push the effective hourly rate below the minimum-wage tip credit threshold. Federal and state DOL routinely pursue this combination.

Minor Labor Break Laws

Federal child labor provisions under the FLSA limit how many hours minors can work but don't mandate breaks. Most states fill that gap — and the rules for under-18 employees are usually stricter than the rules for adults. This matters because federal child labor violations carry penalties up to $15,138 per offense as of 2024, with willful violations exposing employers to criminal liability.

Notable state minor-labor break rules:

• New York: 30-minute meal break for any minor working 6+ hours, in addition to adult rules. Minors under 16 cannot work during school hours.
• Illinois: 30-minute meal break for minors working 5+ continuous hours. ODRISA applies even when shift is shorter than the adult threshold.
• California: Same break law as adults, but enforcement is stricter. Minors limited to 4 hours of work on school days.
• Washington: 30-min meal break per 5 hours, 10-min rest break per 4 hours for minors. Penalties doubled for child labor violations.
• Oregon: 30-min meal break after 5 hours, 15-min rest break per 4 hours for under-18.

Highest-risk industries: restaurants, grocery stores, and retail chains with high teen turnover. The DOL targets these in audits because aggregating violations across many minor employees produces large penalty totals quickly.

The Auto-Deduction Trap

Auto-deducting meal breaks — automatically subtracting 30 minutes from each shift over a threshold without an employee clock-out — is not inherently illegal, but it's the leading source of break-related wage and hour litigation in the United States.

• Auto-deduction practices have driven a steady stream of FLSA collective actions over the past two decades, particularly in healthcare, manufacturing, and food service — documented in Seyfarth's annual Developments in FLSA Litigation reports.
• The common failure pattern: the employer auto-deducts a meal break, but employees actually work through it (especially in healthcare, manufacturing, and restaurants).
• Lubbock County Hospital District (University Medical Center): $119,175 paid to 197 emergency-room workers for auto-deducted breaks they worked through (DOL settlement).
• North Sunflower Medical Center: $201,436 in back wages for 110 workers for the same pattern (DOL settlement, Feb 2023).
• Walmart (Magadia v. Wal-Mart Associates): ~$102 million underlying District Court judgment in 2019; total exposure of approximately $172 million including attorney fees and post-judgment interest. Missed-break and wage-statement violations affecting roughly 70,000–80,000 California employees. The breakdown is the lesson: the missed-break component was a fraction of the total — the larger piece was the cascading wage-statement violations under Labor Code §226. Once premium pay is required and the employer fails to list it correctly, every paystub becomes a separate violation. The 9th Circuit (999 F.3d 668, 2021) vacated the PAGA portion on standing grounds (Magadia had not personally suffered a wage-statement injury), but the underlying §226.7 missed-break liability theory survived for individual class members.

Critical requirement. Any auto-deduction system must provide a mechanism for employees to report short, late, or missed breaks and recover pay for them. Without that mechanism, an auto-deduction policy is a lawsuit waiting to happen.

Break Attestation

Break attestation is a newer compliance tool gaining significant legal weight, especially in California:

• At clock-out, the employee is prompted: "Did you take your full, uninterrupted meal break?"
• If the answer is no, the system records the exception and (in California) calculates premium pay automatically.
• Donohue v. AMN Services, LLC (California Supreme Court, 2021): held that time records showing missed, short, or late meal periods create a rebuttable presumption of a violation. An employer can rebut by showing the employee voluntarily waived the break — and a clean electronic attestation that the employee took (or knowingly waived) the meal period is the most defensible form of that rebuttal. Donohue also held that rounding doesn't apply to meal periods at all (the rebuttable presumption applies to systems that round meal-period punches the same way it applies to systems that miss the punches entirely) — see our time clock rounding rules guide for the broader doctrine and the pending Camp v. Home Depot Supreme Court review.
• Creates a defensible audit trail even when individual breaks aren't clocked.

Multi-State and Remote Workers

Break law follows the employee's work location, not the employer's headquarters. This is the single most-misunderstood rule for remote-first companies in 2026.

• A Texas company with a remote employee living and working in California → California break law applies in full, including premium pay for missed breaks.
• An employee who relocates from Nevada to Oregon → Oregon break law applies starting the day of the move. The employer is responsible for reflecting the change in policies and time-record obligations.
• A cross-state commuter (e.g., lives in NJ, works in NYC) → NY break law typically governs because work is physically performed in NY.

The most common compliance miss for remote-first companies: applying the HQ state's rules to remote employees in stricter states. A Texas startup with engineers scattered across California, Washington, and Oregon needs three different break policies, or a single policy that meets the strictest applicable rule (typically California).

Practical implication: HR systems must track where employees actually work, not just where they were hired. Many multi-state employers standardize to California rules across the workforce to eliminate the per-state policy overhead.

What's NOT a Required Break

Several common time-off-task patterns feel like breaks but aren't legally required or aren't governed by the meal/rest-break statutes. Knowing the boundary prevents both over-policing (denying voluntary breaks) and under-policing (assuming a break that's actually compensable).

• Smoke breaks — no federal or state law requires a smoke break. Employees can take them if the employer's policy allows, but the employer can also prohibit them. Smoking-policy compliance is separate from break-law compliance.
• Bathroom breaks — federal OSHA standards require access to toilet facilities (29 CFR 1910.141), but that's separate from the FLSA meal/rest-break framework. Reasonable bathroom breaks are typically paid time under the "completely-relieved-of-duty" test (the employee isn't fully relieved).
• Voluntary rest breaks beyond the legal minimum — if state law requires one 10-minute rest break per 4 hours and the employer voluntarily offers more, the additional breaks are still subject to FLSA's "paid if 5-20 minutes" rule but aren't legally MANDATED.
• Prayer or religious-observance breaks — not specifically required by the break-law framework, but Title VII of the Civil Rights Act + state religious-accommodation laws may require the employer to accommodate religious observance during work hours. Different statutory framework.
• Lactation breaks — federal PUMP Act (2022) requires reasonable break time and a private space for nursing employees to express milk, for up to one year after birth. This is its own framework — NOT part of the meal/rest-break rules — and overrides any "no break" employer policy.
• "Off the clock" voluntary lunch where the employee is truly free — if the employee genuinely chooses to leave the premises, eat at a restaurant, do personal errands, and is fully relieved of duty, the lunch is unpaid (and not a "break" in the legal sense — it's just off-duty time). The moment work intrudes, the analysis flips — see our off-the-clock work laws by state guide.
• Bona fide meal periods at remote desks where no work occurs — eating at home while WFH, with system access locked, no email checking, no Slack monitoring, fully relieved of duty. Most employees fail this test in practice; the moment they glance at messages, the meal becomes compensable.

The line: a "break" in the legal sense is a defined period during which the employee is completely relieved of duty (for unpaid meal periods) or actually given a paid rest period (for the 10-minute rule). Activities that don't meet that definition aren't "breaks" — they're either off-duty time (not work) or compensable on-duty time (work).

Frequently Asked Questions

If You Discover You've Been Doing This Wrong

Most break compliance problems are discovered the same way: someone audits time records and sees a pattern. Workers consistently missed meals at this location. Auto-deducts in this department never matched the actual breaks. Premium pay never appeared on stubs in this state. Here's the unwinding playbook, in order:

1. Run the audit before plaintiff's counsel does. Pull time records for every affected employee for the full statute of limitations period (2 years federal, 3 years CA premium pay, 4 years CA under unfair competition). Identify shifts with missed, short, or late meal breaks. Most workforce management systems can produce this report; spreadsheets work if not.

2. Pay the back premium voluntarily. In California, premium pay isn't discretionary — it's wages. Paying it now (with a clear pay-stub line item) shrinks exposure and is admissible as evidence of good faith. Self-correcting a violation before a claim is filed dramatically reduces the chance of a class action.

3. Fix the system, not just the symptoms. If the audit revealed auto-deduction without exception capture, the fix is implementing exception capture (attestation at clock-out). If it revealed missing pay-stub line items, the fix is the payroll system, not a one-time correction. The next audit will find the same problems until the system changes.

4. Document the remediation date. The defense in any future claim is that the violation was identified internally, paid voluntarily, and the underlying system was fixed by a specific date. A clean paper trail of the remediation is the difference between "they tried to get away with it" and "they fixed it as soon as they knew."

5. Consult employment counsel if exposure crosses a threshold. Rough rule: if the audit reveals more than a year of systematic violations across more than 20 employees, you have potential class-action exposure. At that scale, the remediation strategy itself becomes part of the defense and shouldn't be improvised.

The Through-Line

Every six-figure break case shares the same root cause: a gap between policy on paper and practice in the field. The defensive posture has three legs: breaks are offered (operationally — not just in the handbook), breaks are recorded (meal periods, every time, for every employee), and exceptions are captured (when work intrudes, the system records the exception and pays the premium). Miss any one and the door is open to a class action; have all three and the rebuttable presumption falls in your favor.

The single highest-leverage compliance move for a multi-state employer is to standardize to California rules: it covers every other state's requirement, eliminates per-state policy overhead, and the record-keeping habits transfer to overtime and sick leave defenses. The next move is operational discipline at the unit level — auditors look at time records, not policies.

Sources and Authorities

Federal

• DOL Fact Sheet #22: Hours Worked Under the FLSA
• 29 CFR 785.18: Rest Periods
• 29 CFR 785.19: Meal Periods
• FMCSA: Hours of Service Regulations (49 CFR 395)
• DOL: Child Labor Provisions for Nonagricultural Employment

State

• California DIR — Meal and Rest Period FAQ
• NY DOL — Meal Periods (Section 162, NY Labor Law)
• Washington L&I — Meal and Rest Breaks
• Oregon BOLI — Meal and Rest Periods
• Colorado CDLE — Wage and Hour Law (COMPS Order)
• Nevada Labor — Meal and Rest Periods
• Illinois DOL — One Day Rest in Seven Act
• Mass.gov — Breaks and Time Off
• Connecticut DOL — Meal and Rest Periods
• Delaware DOL — Office of Labor Law Enforcement
• Tennessee Department of Labor — Meal and Rest Break Laws
• Rhode Island DLT — Wage and Hour FAQ
• Minnesota DLI — Work Breaks and Rest Periods
• Minnesota DLI — Jan 1, 2026 meal/rest break changes announcement

Case law

• Donohue v. AMN Services, LLC, 11 Cal.5th 58 (2021) — California Supreme Court on electronic time-record presumptions and break attestation.
• Magadia v. Wal-Mart Associates, Inc., 9th Cir. (2021) — $172M California meal break + wage statement class action; remanded in part on PAGA standing.

DOL enforcement actions and industry pattern

• DOL WHD — Lubbock County Hospital District ($119,175 to 197 ER workers, Nov 2014)
• HealthLeaders Media — coverage of the Lubbock UMC auto-deduction settlement
• DOL WHD — North Sunflower Medical Center ($201,436 to 110 workers, Feb 2023)
• Becker's Hospital Review — coverage of the North Sunflower auto-deduction settlement
• Seyfarth Shaw — Developments in FLSA Litigation (annual report tracking the auto-deduction class-action pattern)