New CA law requires piece-rate employees receive payment for rest and recovery periods. (see below)
Has anyone come up with a reporting solution for this yet?
(I'm working on it for a CA client, but if already available, I'll defer.)
Link to law: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1513
Partial verbiage:
226.2.
This section shall apply for employees who are compensated on a piece-rate basis for any work performed during a pay period. This section shall not be construed to limit or alter minimum wage or overtime compensation requirements, or the obligation to compensate employees for all hours worked under any other statute or local ordinance. For the purposes of this section, “applicable minimum wage” means the highest of the federal, state, or local minimum wage that is applicable to the employment, and “other nonproductive time” means time under the employer’s control, exclusive of rest and recovery periods, that is not directly related to the activity being compensated on a piece-rate basis.(a) For employees compensated on a piece-rate basis during a pay period, the following shall apply for that pay period:
(1) Employees shall be compensated for rest and recovery periods and other nonproductive time separate from any piece-rate compensation.
(2) The itemized statement required by subdivision (a) of Section 226 shall, in addition to the other items specified in that subdivision, separately state the following, to which the provisions of Section 226 shall also be applicable:
(A) The total hours of compensable rest and recovery periods, the rate of compensation, and the gross wages paid for those periods during the pay period.
(B) Except for employers paying compensation for other nonproductive time in accordance with paragraph (7), the total hours of other nonproductive time, as determined under paragraph (5), the rate of compensation, and the gross wages paid for that time during the pay period.
