Meal Periods and Break Periods

1.86 Meal Periods and Break Periods

Effective Date:

All salaried employees are permitted to take a daily paid meal break. You are free to use it as you see fit. Supervisors are responsible for approving meal periods in their department, allowing for some level of staffing to be maintained in certain departments during these hours.

Non-exempt employees are expected to take a minimum of 30 minutes for all meal periods. For non-exempt employees, during your meal periods, you are not to eat at your desk or perform any work whatsoever.

It is important that you leave for lunch on time and return on time as the delay of one employee in leaving or returning can upset the lunch schedules.

Break Periods:

Rest periods are not formally defined; however, each person may leave their workstation for brief periods of personal interest and need. Care should be exercised, when taking a break from one's work that others engrossed in their work should not be disturbed. Also, it is important to return to your work obligation after your break in a timely fashion.

Breaks For Nursing Mothers:

Employees who are nursing mothers are provided with unpaid breaks as often as needed to express breast milk for the employee’s nursing child. A private place (other than the bathroom) which is shielded from view and free from intrusion from co-workers and the public is provided for this purpose. These unpaid breaks for expressing breast milk are in effect for up to one year after the child’s birth.

Policy No.  1.86  Issued  1/1/2019  Applicable  12/13/2018