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Under California law, a \u201csplit shift\u201d occurs when the employee\u2019s work schedule is divided by the employer into two parts that are separated by a non-paid and non-working time period greater than one hour. If this occurs, then the employer may owe the employee a split shift premium.\u00a0 <\/span>The premium is equal to one hour of pay at the rate of the minimum wage.\u00a0 <\/span>Employees who earn more than minimum wage may also be owed a split shift, however, the greater the wage the lesser the premium.\u00a0 <\/span>Moreover, split shift premiums must be separately itemized on the employee\u2019s paystub.\u00a0 <\/span>If the break between shifts is at the request of the employee, then the employer would not owe a split shift premium.\u00a0 <\/span>If an employee earns $15 per hour and the minimum wage is currently $13 per hour, and the employee works for three hours, has a break for greater than one hour at the employer\u2019s request, and then returns to work for another three hours, the employee would be owed a split shift premium.\u00a0 <\/span>If this employee was earning minimum wage, then he\/she would be owed one hour of pay at the minimum wage.\u00a0 <\/span>However, because this employee earns more than the minimum wage, his\/her split shift premium would be calculated as follows: the minimum wage for the employee\u2019s work day is $91 (6 hours times $13 plus an additional $13 for the split shift premium.\u00a0 <\/span>The employee, however, was paid $90 for his\/her six hours of work.\u00a0 <\/span>The employee is due $1 ($91-$90).\u00a0 <\/span>In this situation, if the employee was earning $16\/hour, he\/she would not be entitled to a split shift premium because his\/her pay would be greater than a minimum wage plus a split shift premium). <\/span><\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Under California law, a \u201csplit shift\u201d occurs when the employee\u2019s work schedule is divided by the employer into two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":629,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"portfolio_category":[],"yoast_head":"\n