Security guards are often not allowed to leave their posts for 10 minute rest periods or 30 minute meal breaks, and are not provided an option to request and receive relief to take off-duty meal and rest breaks. As a result, they are often owed money for these failures.
Milhaupt and Cohen has successfully challenged these practices and recovered money for thousands of security guards employed by various California security service providers and forced to work subject to invalid on-duty meal period agreements, and also negotiated agreed revisions to such policies for the benefit of current and future guards.