The state and federal wage and labor law entitles an employee to legally take a meal or rest break while at work. The California law is one step ahead of the federal wage and hour laws, it states that all employers have to provide meal and rest breaks to their employees if they have worked for a specific number of hours. The California law not only wants meal and rest breaks for the employees during their work hours, but also wants the employers to pay the employees for some of this break time too. Any employer who does not follow the same, would be facing a meal break violation.