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The California Supreme Court recently ruled that acknowledgments may be evidence used by employers to refute meal period claims, but employers cannot obtain acknowledgments using “rounded” time punches when confronting employees with timecard deviations for meal periods. The Court’s February 25 decision in
Donohue v. AMN Services, LLC further held that time records showing noncompliant meal periods do raise a rebuttable presumption of meal period violations, which then shifts the burden to employers to rebut such presumptions with contrary evidence, which may include but is not limited to witness statements and objectively reliable employee acknowledgments.