2006 Louisiana Laws - RS 23:213 — Recreation or meal period

§213.  Recreation or meal period

No minor shall be employed, permitted, or suffered to work for any five-hour period without one interval of at least thirty minutes within such period for meals.  If the period of work before the interval exceeds five hours by less than fifteen minutes, that difference shall be considered de minimis and shall not be considered a violation of this Section.  Such interval shall not be included as part of the working hours of the day.  This interval shall be thirty minutes.  Any difference in length of the interval less than fifteen minutes shall be considered de minimis and shall not be considered a violation of this Section.

Amended by Acts 1976, No. 624, §2, eff. Aug. 4, 1976; Acts 1993, No. 621, §1, eff. June 15, 1993; Acts 1999, No. 573, §1.