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I Built a Free App to Help California Workers Track Their Own Hours and Detect Possible Violations

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California has some of the strongest wage and hour protections in the country. Meal breaks, rest breaks, overtime, split-shift premiums — the law is specific about what workers are owed. The problem is that most workers have no independent record of what actually happened. Their employer keeps (and manipulates) the timesheets. If something looks wrong…

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California Meal Break & Rest Break Law (2026) – Quick Calculator + Charts

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Not getting all your breaks? WageCop records your real shifts and automatically flags possible break issues based on your actual hours, not a what-if. Built by Eugene Lee, the California employment lawyer behind this blog. Free to download and use. This meal break and rest break calculator will tell you how many meal and/or rest…

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