Security officers: rest periods.

Existing law prohibits an employer from requiring an employee to work during a mandated meal or rest or recovery period, as specified. Existing law requires an employer who fails to provide an employee a mandated meal or rest or recovery period to pay the employee one additional hour of pay at the employee's regular rate of compensation for each workday that the meal or rest or recovery period was not provided. Existing law provides certain exemptions from these requirements. Existing law, the Private Security Services Act, provides for the licensing and regulation of private security guards, private patrol operators, and armored contract carriers by the Bureau of Security and Investigative Services. This bill, until January 1, 2027, would authorize a person employed as a security officer who is registered pursuant to the Private Security Services Act, and whose employer is a registered private patrol operator, to be required to remain on the premises during rest periods and to remain on call, and carry and monitor a communication device, during rest periods. The bill would require a security officer to be permitted to restart a rest period anew as soon as practicable if the officer's rest period is interrupted and would provide that a subsequent uninterrupted rest period satisfies the rest period obligation. If a security officer is not permitted to take an uninterrupted rest period of at least 10 minutes for every 4 hours worked or major fraction thereof, the bill would require the officer to be paid one additional hour of pay at the employee's regular base hourly rate of compensation. The bill would require that certain conditions be satisfied before these provisions apply, and would specify these provisions do not apply to cases filed before January 1, 2021. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.