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Earlier this month, the California Supreme Court came out with a long-awaited (at least to employment lawyers) decision regarding meal periods and rest breaks.

Although the case isn’t directly applicable in Connecticut, it offers some comparable wisdom on how employers can deal with such breaks here in Connecticut. The holdings of that case have been cited in a good recap by Molly Dibianca here which I won’t repeat here. 

In Connecticut , meal periods are covered by Conn. Gen. Stat. 31-51ii.

That law has a few requirements:

Continuing the summer series on the basics of some employment laws in Connecticut, we turn this week to laws regarding working conditions.

Indeed, while the anti-discrimination laws and FMLA laws get all the press, there are a whole host of other laws that regulate the workplace conditions.  These are no less important and ignoring this