Legal Question in Employment Law in California

Re: Can I sue my current employer for not allowing me to have lunch?

Federal Contractors (and even Union employees) are required to provide 30 minutes for lunch for each day if you work more than 6 hours on that shift. If you are being intimidated into not taking 30 minutes because others do not, you are being deprived of your meal break. Further, it is not legal for them to provide you those 30 minutes either at the end of the day or end of the week.

If there are quite a few employees involved, your safest course may be to bring a class action on behalf of all workers. If you wanted to pursue a claim on your own, you could go through the DLSE, however, they have not been very receptive lately with regards to meal period violation claims.

If you would like to discuss your options, please feel free to call.

Re: Can I sue my current employer for not allowing me to have lunch?

You can make a claim of violation of wage/hour rules and unpaid compensation.

If you are prepared to make a claim of sexual/gender discrimination based upon those allegations, and if you have any corroboration of the 'difference in treatment' and 'hostile environment' you are being subjected to, and if you have made a complaint to management/supervision about those issues, and if they've done nothing to remedy the situation, then feel free to contact me to discuss your rights.