Common use of Rest Time Clause in Contracts

Rest Time. An employee is eligible for rest time when working in the eight (8) hour period immediately preceding the beginning of their regular shift on a workday. Rest time can be utilized for employees who work emergency hours and are viewed as, or view themselves as, too fatigued to work their regularly scheduled work shift. (a) Rest time can be employee or management initiated. (b) Rest time is only utilized as time without pay outside of the employee’s regularly scheduled work shift. (c) Rest time can be utilized as unpaid leave or the employee’s vacation time or compensatory time during a regularly scheduled shift. (d) Rest time is earned at the rate of one (1) hour for every hour worked in the eight (8) hour period immediately preceding the beginning of the employee’s regularly scheduled shift. (e) Employees who request rest time shall communicate and obtain approval from their immediate supervisor of their intent to use rest time hours, prior to the use of rest time. Rest time shall be used during the next regularly scheduled shift. (f) If the employee elects to take rest time at the beginning of the shift, the rest time hours will start at the beginning of the shift and run consecutively until exhausted. (g) If the employee elects to take rest time at the end of the shift, their work shift will start at the regular time and the employee will work at their regular hourly rate until rest time is due. (h) Except in emergency situations, no employee shall work more than sixteen (16) consecutive work hours without rest time. (i) Employees shall not “bank” or save rest time.