Meal-Break Compliance

Contemporaneous meal-break records, captured automatically.

HyperTrack confirms every meal break the moment it happens — timestamped and location-verified. Turn premium-pay exposure into a defensible audit trail, the day the shift ends.

Built on millions of shifts of location intelligence.

See it on your shifts See how it works

Location-verified

GPS and geofences confirm the worker was actually off duty — and where.

Captured in the moment

Confirmed as the break starts and ends — never reconstructed.

Exact times, no rounding

Start and end to the minute — exactly what California requires.

Cross-checked

Flagged the instant a break is missed, short, or late.

Real-time collection

Live capture · SMS + location

Beacon Health

Shift started · clock-in verified · 8:02 AM

HyperTrack Agent · 8:04 AM

Hi Maria 👋 I'm your HyperTrack agent — I'm here to make sure you get your meal breaks on time. You're due for a 30-minute break before 1:00 PM (your 5th hour). Take it whenever works for you, and just message me if you need it sooner. I'll check back in!

Policy · CA meal break — 30 min before the 5th hour

Maria · Worker · 8:05 AM

Got it, thanks!

4 hours into the shift

Maria · Worker · 12:06 PM

Starting my lunch break now

Location verified · on-site, off-duty

Maria · Worker · 12:41 PM

Done — back on the floor

HyperTrack Agent · 12:41 PM

Thanks Maria! Logged your meal break: 12:06–12:41 PM (35 min). You're all set.

Meal-break record · auto-generated

Compliant

Break: 12:06 PM → 12:41 PM · 35 min
Location: Verified off-duty, on-site
Source: GPS + SMS confirmation
Timing: Before end of 5th hour

Illustrative flow. HyperTrack captures the same contemporaneous record on every shift.

Why it matters

When you can't prove the break, you pay for it.

A missed, short, or late meal break can owe an hour of premium pay — and since Donohue v. AMN Services (2021), the records you keep are what decide liability.

The exposure

Premium-pay leakage

Every non-compliant meal period can owe an hour of premium pay — with no proof a compliant break was taken, you pay it across thousands of shifts.

Wage-and-hour exposure

PAGA and class actions turn on records. Attestations signed days later don't hold up when a claim lands.

Manual reconstruction

Rebuilding break timelines from spreadsheets at closeout is slow, expensive, and every entry is contestable.

What the law requires

—California: a 30-minute duty-free break before the end of the 5th hour; miss one and you owe an extra hour of pay, per workday.
—Donohue (2021): records showing a missed, short, or late break create a rebuttable presumption of a violation — and rounding punches isn't allowed. Contemporaneous records are how you rebut it.
—Beyond CA: no federal mandate, but ~20 states require meal breaks — each with its own rules. HyperTrack captures the same record wherever your workers are.

Labor Code §§ 512, 226.7 · Donohue v. AMN Services (Cal. 2021) · California DLSE →

General information, not legal advice. Meal-period requirements vary by state and change over time — consult qualified counsel for your obligations.

Contemporaneous meal-break records, captured automatically.

When you can't prove the break, you pay for it.

Meal breaks are one rule. HyperTrack closes out the whole shift.

Make every meal break defensible.