Employees: meal periods: construction industry.

Plain English Breakdown

The bill summary does not provide specific details about enforcement mechanisms or exact handling of meal breaks on jobsites.

Meal Breaks for Construction Workers

This law changes meal break rules for workers in the construction industry.

What This Bill Does

• Changes current laws about when construction workers must get meal breaks.
• Creates an exception allowing employers to not give a first or second meal break if the worker is on a jobsite.
• Keeps existing exceptions for collective bargaining agreements.

Who It Names or Affects

• Construction workers
• Employers in the construction industry

Terms To Know

collective bargaining agreement

An agreement between a union and an employer that sets rules for pay, hours, and working conditions.

Industrial Welfare Commission

A group that makes rules about work conditions to protect workers' health and safety.

Limits and Unknowns

• Does not specify when or how the new rule will be enforced.
• The exact details of how meal breaks are handled on jobsites remain unclear.

Official Summary Text

AB 2070, as introduced, Ellis.
Employees: meal periods: construction industry.
Existing law generally prohibits an employer from employing an employee for a work period of more than 5 hours per day without providing the employee with a meal period of not less than 30 minutes, except as specified. Existing law also prohibits an employer from employing an employee for a work period of more than 10 hours per day without providing the employee with a 2nd meal period, as prescribed. Existing law creates exceptions from these work limits for employees in specified occupations, including those in a construction occupation, as defined, covered by a valid collective bargaining agreement expressly providing for wages, hours of work, and working conditions. Existing law also authorizes the Industrial Welfare Commission to adopt a working condition order permitting a meal period to commence after 6 hours of work if it determines that the order is consistent with the health and
welfare of the affected workers. Existing law charges the Labor Commissioner with enforcement of these provisions.
This bill would create an exception from the above-described work period limits for an employee in a construction occupation while the employee is on the jobsite, as specified.

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