The following sections of the Alaska Statutes concern meal and rest periods.

AS 23.10.350. Employment of Person Under 18.

(c) Except as provided in (e) of this section, a person under 18 years of age who is scheduled to work for six consecutive hours or more is entitled to a break of at least 30 minutes during the course of the work shift. The break required by this subsection may be scheduled at the convenience of the employer but must occur after the first hour and a half of work and before the beginning of the last hour of work. A person under 18 years of age who works for five consecutive hours without a break is entitled to a break of at least 30 minutes before continuing to work. This subsection may be modified by the terms of a collective bargaining agreement that covers the employment of the person under 18. This subsection may be modified on occasion by mutual agreement between the employer and the employee.

(d) Notwithstanding AS 23.10.055 (11), failure to provide the unpaid break periods required by (c) of this section creates a minimum wage liability under AS 23.10.065 for the break that the employee did not receive or received late. A claim for minimum wage in lieu of the unpaid break is enforceable under AS 23.10.110 .

(e) The provisions of (c) of this section do not apply to

(1) an individual employed in the catching, trapping, cultivating or farming, netting, or taking of any kind of fish, shellfish, or other aquatic forms of animal and vegetable life;

(2) an individual employed by a member of the individual's family; in this paragraph, "member of the individual's family" means the individual's spouse, parent, step-parent, grandparent, step-grandparent, great grandparent, step-great grandparent, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, great-uncle, or great-aunt, whether of the whole or half blood or by adoption or by marriage.

AS 23.10.360. Regulations For Minimum Standards and Work Opportunities.

(a) The department may, from time to time after public notice and hearing, adopt regulations and issue orders establishing minimum standards for safety, working conditions, kind and extent of work in various phases of the respective fields of employment, maximum hours for the day and week, and minimum rates of pay, and other reasonable safeguards compatible with the welfare of all minors covered by AS 23.10.325 - 23.10.370.

(b) The department shall make cooperative arrangements with other state and federal agencies and shall adopt the regulations that are necessary to provide opportunities for work experience in safe and healthful occupations for minors.

(c) The department shall, after notice and hearing, adopt regulations authorizing the employment of minors under 18 years of age and exempting appropriate employers from the reporting requirements of AS 23.10.332.

AS 29.25.080. Breast-Feeding.

A municipality may not enact an ordinance that prohibits or restricts a woman breast-feeding a child in a public or private location where the woman and child are otherwise authorized to be. In a municipal ordinance, "lewd conduct," "lewd touching," "immoral conduct," "indecent conduct," and similar terms do not include the act of a woman breast-feeding a child in a public or private location where the woman and child are otherwise authorized to be. Nothing in this section may be construed to authorize an act that is an offense under a municipal ordinance that establishes an offense with elements substantially equivalent to the elements of an offense under AS 11.61.123 . This section is applicable to home rule and general law municipalities.

AS 01.10.060. Definitions.

(b) In the laws of the state, "lewd conduct," "lewd touching," "immoral conduct," "indecent conduct," and similar terms do not include the act of a woman breast-feeding a child in a public or private location where the woman and child are otherwise authorized to be. Nothing in this subsection may be construed to authorize an act that is an offense under AS 11.61.123 .