No minor under sixteen years of age shall be employed, permitted, or suffered to work for any five-hour period without one interval of at least thirty minutes within such period for meals. If the period of work before the interval exceeds five hours by ten minutes or less, that difference shall be considered de minimis and shall not be considered a violation of this Section. Such interval shall not be included as part of the working hours of the day. This interval shall be thirty minutes. If the length of the meal break is at least twenty minutes, the difference between the actual break time and the required thirty-minute break time shall be considered de minimis and shall not be considered a violation of this Section. The break shall be documented using the employer's normal timekeeping system. If a minor fails to clock in or out for a work period or meal break and a time edit is necessary, the time edit shall be documented and acknowledged in writing by the minor and the manager who performs the time edit.
R.S. 23:213 active rs title
Minors under sixteen; recreation or meal period ACTIVE
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History
- enactment Acts 1976, No. 624, §2, eff. Aug. 4, 1976
- amendment Acts 1993, No. 621, §1, eff. June 15, 1993
- amendment Acts 1999, No. 573, §1
- amendment Acts 2011, No. 177, §1
- amendment Acts 2024, No. 603, §1