Many employers frequently ask exactly what are the meal and rest period requirements. Every employer shall authorize and permit all employees to take rest periods, which insofar as practicable shall be in the middle of each work period.

The following is a word-for-word explanation of your responsibilities towards your employees when you have to give meal and rest periods. This includes cashiers.

Employee Meal & Rest Periods

There has been that practice for many years of recording the employees' starting time and stopping rime to the nearest 5 minutes, or to the nearest one- tenth of quarter of an hour. Presumably, this arrangement averages out so that the employees are fully compensated for all the time they actually work. But is this correct?

Here's the rules as quoted directly form the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement Policies and Interpretations Manual

Calculating Employee Hours Worked  

Can I deduct a cash shortage or uniform costs and loss from an employee's paycheck? We are also often asked how to properly deduct the cash shortage from the employee's paycheck.

To help clarify matters, the following is a "word for word" quotation from the California Industrial Welfare Commission.

Cash Shortage and Uniform Requirements

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that businesses can protect themselves against damages and liability against employee lawsuits by providing clear, written policies covering the rights and responsibilities of their employees. Even the smallest business should protect itself with an employment handbook.

Labor relations laws require all employers to maintain written policy and apply it nondiscriminatory to all employees. Here is helpful information which will make it so easy to comply.

Employee Policy Manual Information