EssilorLuxottica Operations | California Meal Periods & Rest Breaks

All U.S. EssilorLuxottica Manufacturing, Rx Operations and Distribution Center employees are collectively referred to as “EssilorLuxottica Operations.”

California law provides for employee meal periods and rest breaks. EssilorLuxottica complies with these laws, and expects its California managers to manage and enforce compliance.

Employees must be completely relieved of all work and allowed to leave their work location during meal periods and rest breaks. Employees may voluntarily choose to stay in the location for their meal or rest break, but managers cannot require or encourage them to do so. Should they choose to leave the location, retail employees must remember to notify their manager and/or another authorized employee before leaving the workplace for meal periods and rest breaks.

Meal Periods

While working for EssilorLuxottica, employees may not work a period of more than five hours per day without being provided with the opportunity to take an uninterrupted, duty-free meal period of not less than 30-minutes, except that if the total work period per day of the employee is no more than six hours, the meal period may be waived by mutual consent of both EssilorLuxottica and the employee through signing a voluntary waiver or attestation form designated by EssilorLuxottica. Employees shall be provided with the opportunity to take this first meal period so that the meal period begins before the end of the fifth hour worked (for example, an employee who begins work at 9am shall be provided with the opportunity to take his/her meal period by no later than 1:59pm).

Further, employees may not work a period of more than 10 hours per day without being provided with the opportunity to take a second uninterrupted, duty-free meal period of not less than 30-minutes, except if the total hours worked is no more than 12 hours, the second meal period may be waived by mutual consent of EssilorLuxottica and the employee only if the first meal period was not waived, and through signing of a voluntary waiver form designated by EssilorLuxottica. Employees shall be provided with the opportunity to take this second meal period so that the meal period begins before the end of the tenth hour worked.

Rest Breaks

Hourly employees are authorized and permitted to take one paid rest break of 10 minutes (or 15-minutes in accordance with Company policy) for every four hours worked, or major fraction thereof. If an employee’s total daily work time is less than three and one half hours, however, no rest break is required. Rest breaks should occur as close to the middle of each work period as practical. Rest breaks may not be combined with or added to meal periods to create one longer break time, even at the employee’s request. Hourly employees do not clock out/in for rest breaks or otherwise record their rest breaks in the Company’s timekeeping system.

Rest breaks are authorized and permitted as follows:

Consequences of Non-Compliance

Non-exempt/Hourly employees are entitled to be paid for all hours worked, to be provided with the opportunity to take all required meal periods, and authorized and permitted to take all required rest breaks. Therefore, it is critical that all hourly employees (including managers) strictly comply with this policy. Employees who are not provided with the opportunity to take meal periods in accordance with this policy and/or who are not authorized and permitted to take rest breaks in accordance with this policy should notify management and/or Human Resources so that the matter can be remedied. If an employee fails to comply with the meal period and rest break policy, he/she may be subject to Corrective Action.

Questions and Complaints

Employees may bring any questions regarding their meal or rest period rights to the attention of their manager or, if they prefer, Human Resources. Store Managers, Regional Managers, and Regional Vice Presidents DO NOT have the authority to alter this policy. If an employee is told that he/she is not entitled to meal periods or rest breaks as set forth under this policy, the employee should contact Human Resources.