Section 516 Of Chapter 1. General From California Labor Code >> Division 2. >> Part 2. >> Chapter 1.
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. (a) Except as provided in Section 512, the Industrial Welfare
Commission may adopt or amend working condition orders with respect
to break periods, meal periods, and days of rest for any workers in
California consistent with the health and welfare of those workers.
(b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), or any other law, including
Section 512, the health care employee meal period waiver provisions
in Section 11(D) of Industrial Welfare Commission Wage Orders 4 and 5
were valid and enforceable on and after October 1, 2000, and
continue to be valid and enforceable. This subdivision is declarative
of, and clarifies, existing law.