Employees Record Lunch Periods

We must now require each non-exempt employee (on an hourly rate) to keep an accurate record of their daily lunch period. LHFJ is now required to keep records of your lunch periods to be in compliance with California law.

HR will place a paper time card in all comm. boxes every Friday (example below).

This will follow the same week as our pay period, which is Friday to Thursday. The employee will keep the time card all week to note their daily lunch periods. These should be recorded at the time that lunch is taken, not later in the day, to ensure that the time records are accurate.

Regardless of whether you actually take lunch in the AM or PM, just use the AM OUT slot of the timecard to record the time you left to take lunch, and the PM IN slot to record the time your lunch period ended.

Examples

For example: Billy started his lunch at 11:30am and returned at 12:00pm. In the slot to the right of AM & OUT Billy would write 11:30 and in the slot to the right of PM & IN Billy would write 12:00.

For example: Sophie started her lunch at 1:35pm and returned at 2:05pm. In the slot to the right of AM & OUT Sophie would write 1:35 and in the slot to the right of PM & IN Sophie would write 2:05.

The time card is filled in for the week and turned in to the HR Department by close of business on Thursdays. It will be kept with your timesheet for the same pay period. Each employee must sign the bottom of the timecard before turning it in.