If the work period is seven hours or less, the meal period is to be taken after the end of the second hour worked and must be finished before the fifth hour of work begins. If the work period is more than seven hours, the meal period must be taken after the end of the third hour worked and must be finished the sixth hour of work begins. As the nature of your work allows, you will be given a rest period approximately in the middle of each segment of four hours, or major part thereof, worked in a work period. Check with your manager regarding procedures and schedules for meal and rest periods. The Company requests that employees accurately observe and record meal and rest periods. If you know in advance that you may not be able to take your scheduled meal or rest period, let your manager know; in addition, notify your manager as soon as possible if you were unable to take or were prohibited from taking a meal or rest period. Travel Time Pay Some nonexempt positions within CREA, LLC require travel. The Company pays nonexempt employees for travel time in accordance with state and federal law. For purposes of this policy, the regular workday is 8:00 – 5:00 (Monday – Friday). Home to Work in an Ordinary Situation If you travel from home before the regular workday and return to your home at the end of the workday, you are engaged in ordinary home to work travel, which is a normal incident of employment, whether you work at a fixed location or at different job sites. Normal travel from home to work is not work time. Home to Work in an Emergency Situation If you leave the premises or job site after completing the day's work and are subsequently called out to travel a substantial distance to perform an emergency job, any time spent in excess of time spent in normal home- to-work travel will be considered working time. Call-backs that require only normal home-to-work travel to the Company place of business or job site will not be considered working time. A "substantial distance" means a distance beyond a 30-mile radius of the Company place of business. Travel That Is All in a Day's Work Your time spent in travel as part of your principal activity will be counted as hours worked. Where you are required to report at a meeting place to receive instructions or to perform other work there or to pick up and carry tools, the travel from the designated place to the work place is part of the day's work and must be counted as hours worked regardless of any contract, custom, or practice: Example: A construction worker who travels from job site to job site during the work day must be compensated for time spent in traveling; Example: If an employee who normally finishes work on the employer's premises at 5 p.m. is sent to another job at a different site, finishes that job at 8 p.m. and is then required to return to the employer's premises arriving at 9 p.m., the employee will be compensated for all time up to 9 p.m. However, if the employee goes home instead of returning to the employer's premises, the travel time after 8 p.m. is considered normal work to home travel and is not compensable. Home to Work on Special One-Day Assignment to Another City If you regularly work at a fixed official work station and you are given an assignment to work in another city outside of a 30-mile radius of the official work station where normally employed, and not required to stay overnight, you will be paid travel time as previously described. This time is considered an integral part of a principal activity.
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