Common use of Crib Breaks Clause in Contracts

Crib Breaks. (a) Employees engaged for a minimum of five hours shall be allowed a crib period of 20 minutes without deduction of pay. (b) Employees required to continue working a further 5 hours on top of the minimum shift shall be allowed a crib period of 20 minutes without deduction of pay provided that an employee working the day and night session on that day shall be allowed an unpaid meal break of up to one hour between 4pm and 7pm and further provided that an employee hereby entitled to a meal break of one hour who is required to work without such a meal break shall receive payments at time and one half for all time worked after 7pm until he or she receives such a meal break. (c) Both above crib breaks shall be taken at a time convenient to the Club but in no case shall the break be allowed at the beginning or the end of the period of duty.