AB 2605: Rest breaks: petroleum facilities: safety-sensitive positions.

Existing law prohibits an employer from requiring an employee to work during a mandated meal or rest or recovery period, as specified. Existing law requires an employer who fails to provide an employee a mandated meal or rest or recovery period to pay the employee one additional hour of pay at the employees regular rate of compensation for each workday that the meal or rest or recovery period was not provided. Existing law provides certain exemptions from these requirements.

This bill, until January 1, 2021, would exempt specified employees who hold a safety-sensitive position at a petroleum facility, as those terms are defined, from the rest and recovery period requirements. The bill would provide that for any rest or recovery period during which the employee was interrupted or forced to miss, the employer would be required to pay to the employee one additional hour of compensation at the employees regular rate of pay.

This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.