10:31 CEST+02:00. Surrounded by luxury at the high-end Geneva hotels where she works, Alcina Esteves de Almeida sometimes goes hungry â her salary, while generous by American standards, is not enough to make ends meet in pricey Switzerland.
California Meal Breaks. California Labor Laws require that employers provide employees with adequate meal breaks. For most occupations, you are entitled to a meal break after 5 hours of work, provided your total days work is more than 6 hours.
Oregon law, in contrast, requires a half-hour break for each work period of 6 to 8 hours, and specifies that the break must come between the second and fifth hour for work period of seven hours or less and between third and sixth hour for work periods longer than seven hours.