Earlier, the captain had ordered her to take a meal break.

California law requires that employers provide a meal break of 30 minutes for every five hours on the clock.

Employees are to receive a 30 minute meal break at least once every 5 hours.

You will normally work a 5 day week of 42 hours including meal breaks.

At long last, they had a meal break, but the respite was brief.

The two of them had been given a brief meal break by Krebs.

She waits until the other girls have gone off on their meal break.

"Then I have about forty minutes for a meal break," said the first officer.

It was my turn to stand watch while the others were taking their mid-shift meal break.

So they'd had two meal breaks, and to Barton, his day was getting into evening.