Employment: meal periods.

Existing law requires an employer to provide its employees with a meal period of not less than 30 minutes after working more than 5 hours per day and a 2nd meal period of the same duration after working more than 10 hours per day. Under existing law, these meal periods may be waived under certain conditions by mutual consent of the employer and employee. Existing law makes a violation of these provisions a misdemeanor. This bill would allow an employer of a registered security officer to provide on-duty meal periods instead if the officer is covered by a valid collective bargaining agreement containing specified terms or has a written on-duty meal period agreement with his or her employer containing specified terms. Because the bill would make these on-duty meal provisions subject to specified terms, the violation of which would be a crime, it would impose a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.