NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. – May 7, 2025 — Elevate SaaS, Inc., delivering world-class total talent management technologies for today’s high-performing, nimble organizations, today announced new functionality for the company’s ELEVATE vendor management system (VMS) platform for tracking and monitoring of meal and rest periods. Rigorous meal break tracking has become a significant requirement for doing business in California and ELEVATE leads all vendor management systems in its capabilities and reporting in this regard.
Under a 2021 California Supreme Court ruling, the meal break law (which is much more generous to employees than current federal labor law), a non-exempt worker clocking more than five hours a day is entitled to a 30-minute uninterrupted, duty-free meal break. Additionally, a 10-minute uninterrupted, duty-free rest break is required for every four hours of work, or “major fraction” thereof. The law states that if the employer does not comply with break law requirements, they are required to pay one extra hour of regular pay for each day on which a meal break violation occurred, and another extra hour of regular pay for each day on which a rest break violation occurred. Employees or contingent workers must be allowed to take meal breaks off work premises, and spend breaks as desired, since they are off the clock.
To help companies and managed services providers with compliance with the state laws surrounding required meal breaks and rest periods, ELEVATE has new capability for enhanced break rules and rest period tracking. Given the complexity of the law, the solution has many components, including break-time tracking, resource attestations and detailed tracking and reporting. This enhanced functionality enables resources to capture the start and end times of unpaid breaks when entering their weekly hours and alerts the program team and suppliers to see if an unpaid break is missed or is shorter than the state-required minimum. It also allows the resource to attest to why a particular break was missed. Additionally, reporting on missed breaks and attestations as well as notifications to all stakeholders in the process has been enhanced with this new functionality.
“With these enhancements, customers now have deeper visibility into meal breaks, allowing for increased compliance with local employment laws and company policies,” said Rob Morris, ELEVATE SaaS president
and CEO. “Over two-thirds of our customers operating businesses in California are already using this functionality, and we estimate these customers are avoiding thousands of dollars in potential meal break penalties.”
To learn more about ELEVATE’s meal break rule and rest period tracking, download our latest white paper, “California Meal and Rest Break Tracking in the ELEVATE VMS”.
About Elevate SaaS, Inc.
Elevate SaaS enables its blue-chip customers to solve complex contingent workforce challenges with a highly flexible, state-of-the-art SaaS solution. The ELEVATE platform was developed over the last decade to address the ever-evolving corporate demand for an effective contingent workforce and is purpose-built by industry veterans to solve these increasingly complex issues. Human capital often constitutes the largest single cost of doing business. Organizations worldwide are increasingly relying on an evolving supply of on-demand contingent workers, contractors, and consultants. To cost-effectively source and manage this on-demand talent, while maintaining compliance and regulatory standards, these organizations turn to sophisticated workforce management solutions, such as the ELEVATE total talent and vendor management system. For more information, visit us at elevatesaas.com and follow us on LinkedIn, Instagram, X and Threads.
