Meal breaks of at least 20 minutes are mandatory for all employees who are scheduled or required to work a shift of at least 7.5 hours. Typically, your break will be scheduled to start after you have completed four hours of work, but in no event will it be scheduled more than five hours after your shift start. If you are scheduled to or anticipate working at least 7.5 continuous hours, you must ensure you take a break. If you work more than 7.5 hours, you are also entitled to an additional 20-minute meal period for every additional 4.5 hours worked. For purposes of this policy, a meal period does not include reasonable time spent using the restroom. Travel Time Pay Some nonexempt positions within CREA, LLC require travel. The Company pays nonexempt employees for travel time in accordance with federal and state law. For purposes of this policy, the regular workday is 8:00 – 5:00 (Monday – Friday).
Home to Work Travel
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 not work time.
Home to Work on a Special One Day Assignment in Another City
If you regularly work at a fixed location in one city and you are given a special one day assignment in another city, but return home the same day, the time spent in traveling to and returning from the other city is work time, except that the Company may deduct/not count that time you would normally spend commuting to the regular work site.
Travel That Is All in a Day's Work
Your time spent in travel as part of your principal activity, such as travel from job site to job site during the workday, is work time and must be counted as hours worked.
Travel Away from Home Community
Travel that keeps you away from home overnight is travel away from home. Travel away from home is clearly work time when it cuts across your workday. The time is not only hours worked on regular working days during normal working hours but also during corresponding hours on nonworking days. The Company will not consider as work time that time spent in travel away from home outside of your regular working hours as a passenger on an airplane, train, boat, bus, or automobile.
Work Performed While Traveling
Any work you perform while traveling must be counted as hours worked.
Calculating and Reporting Travel Time
You are responsible for accurately tracking, calculating, and reporting your travel time. Travel time should be calculated by rounding up to the nearest quarter hour. Overtime If you are nonexempt, you may qualify for overtime pay. All overtime must be approved in advance, in writing, by your manager. At certain times CREA, LLC may require you to work overtime. We will attempt to give as much notice as possible in this instance. However, advance notice may not always be possible. Failure to work overtime when requested or working unauthorized overtime may result in discipline, up to and including discharge. Unless otherwise required or exempted by law, overtime pay of one and one-half times your regular rate of pay is paid for any hours worked in excess of 40 hours in a workweek. Holidays, PTO, and VTO hours do not count as time worked for computing overtime.
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