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Law Offices of Timothy Bowles, P.C.

This firm specializes in employment law and litigation for employers. Our goal is to enable clients to pursue their worthwhile ends by constructive and ethical means. We are committed to providing professional skills and results of the highest caliber.

This law practice represents employers in government agency actions and civil cases, including defense of workplace discrimination, harassment and retaliation claims. We have successfully handled matters alleging racial, religious, age and gender discrimination in the workplace. We also perform the preventative work of helping clients establish and maintain sensible workplace policies which promote staff initiative and company stability.

The firm also handles a wide range of civil litigation, including civil rights, contract and trade secret disputes. This law practice is expanding into prosecution of psychiatric abuse litigation, including fraud, assault, and malpractice cases.

Only in rare instances does the firm represent employees in resolving workplace-related disputes. On inquiry from employees, the firm will apply its best efforts to refer them to other counsel that specialize in such representation.

Similarly, for specialty areas in which we do not practice, we refer inquiring public to other lawyers to outside the office with experience in those spheres. Such areas include but are not limited to family disputes, immigration, tax, intellectual property, and criminal matters.

Other than psychiatrically related work, this office does not handle personal injury claims.

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MEAL AND REST PERIODS IN THE WORKPLACE

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Meal and Rest Periods in the Workplace

California requires employers to "provide" to its hourly, exempt-from-overtime workers a minimum ten minute paid break for every four-hour shift and "provide" a minimum thirty minute unpaid meal period for every five hours on the job.

In its short seven-year history, this "provide or pay premium" law has grown into a monster, with claims for missed meal and rest periods perhaps the hottest and most frequently used theory of wage-oriented challenge against California employers today. Some consequences are, to say the least, ironic for unwary employers. For instance, since the law requires an unpaid meal period for each five hours worked, an employer can rack up an obligation to pay an employee yet another one hour of premium pay where that business has been magnanimous enough to provide that employee paid half-hour or longer meal break.

A frequent question employers raise is just what each must do to comply with the requirement to "provide" the 10-minute breaks and the 30-minute meal periods.

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