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Effective Date: August 25, 1988 Subject: Personnel

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AN ADKl'.NlSTRA:r:IVE REGULATION
ES'tABLISBDG MEALTIME PROCEDURES
Sect1oo. 1.
Under normal conditions a City employee shall be entitled to tiule off to eat
during each work shift to be scheduled by the immediate supervisor. One hour
meal breaks are normally associated with employees working a nine hour period.
five days per week, with the hour taken as unpaid tittle. Because of the varied
shifts and needs, lengths of mealtiule JDaY vary within departments of the City.
Section. 2.
Where scheduling problems exist, or emergencies arise, employees lllllY be
required to take meals at their work station or site. Such mealt:lma would be
considered as time worKed. Supervisors may require employees to take meals
while on duty for emergency reasons, Any permanent policy of requiring an
employee, or a group of employees, to take meals while on duty will require
the approval of the department head, Employees who are paid for meal breaks
are subject to illllllBdiate call back to work if such conditions dictate.
Section 3.

As with relief period breaks, scheduled mealtime that the employee elects not
to take cannot be accumulated for other purposes such as vacation,
cbmpensatory time off, or as a means of leaving the job early.
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