Online Webinar 2019 - Live Webinar:California Meal and Rest Breaks: What You Don’t Know Can Cost You

Overview
California statutes pertaining to meal and rest periods for non-exempt employees is one of the more confusing topics in today’s business environment.
This course is designed to provide you with a practical foundation for understanding the law. It includes guidelines for how to properly create and administer your own meal and rest period policy. Or, if your company already has its own policy, then this information can help you to review your existing policy as well as the procedures and practices in “real life” daily operations.
By the end of the course, you will be informed about the laws so that you will be better-equipped to assist your company in being California-compliant with meal and rest periods.
Session Highlights
In this course, you’ll learn key topics to ensure that you’re aware of California’s meal and rest period requirements:
Understand the basic requirements under California law pertaining to meal and rest periods.
Review common violations by employers in attempting to follow the law.
Enumerate the penalties and remedies for violations under the law.
Review examples of recent settlements .
Review best practices for compliance.
Identify resources for further information about the requirements.
Why Should You Attend
Meal and rest breaks laws continue to confound California employers with hourly-paid employees. Without a solid understanding of these specific requirements, your policies and procedures for your non-exempt employees can pose a substantial financial risk to your business.
Employers, managers, supervisors, and human resources professionals should have a sound understanding of these laws so that they can communicate the legal requirements to their hourly-paid employees. As well, they need to be well-versed so that they can provide non-exempt employees with the opportunities to take their entitled meal and rest periods.
By attending this training, employers and their leaders will have a working knowledge of California meal and break period requirements and help their companies to be compliant under the law.
Who Should Attend
California-based employers with hourly-paid (non-exempt) employees
Out-of-state employers that have operations based in California with hourly-paid (non-exempt) employees
Businesses without a human resources department
Businesses with a single-person human resources department
Businesses with an out-of-state HR leader or managers/supervisors who oversees California-based hourly-paid (non-exempt) employees
Any manager, supervisor, or HR professional who is new to their position in providing oversight and leadership to California-based (non-exempt) employees
Speaker’s Professional Profile:
Melveen Stevenson is the CEO and founder of M.S.Elemental, LLC, a human resources and business advisory firm based in Los Angeles, California. As a certified HR professional with a background in accounting and finance, she helps companies to navigate the human resources “jungle” of compliance, human capital, and leadership challenges. In doing so, she empowers companies to strengthen their infrastructure from the inside out, specifically through leadership development, operations, training, employee engagement, and executive coaching.
Melveen speaks on key topics to empower companies with the latest research and best practices for increasing engagement, enhancing leadership presence, and optimizing diverse workforce groups.
Over the last 18 years, Melveen has held leadership positions in human resources operations, supply chain, and talent management at international companies in food manufacturing, medical devices, and consumer products.
Melveen is certified through the Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM-SCP) and the Human Resources Certification Institute (SPHR). In addition, she is certified in Extended DiSC® for individuals, pairs, and groups.