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TIME AWAY FROM WORK
1. BREAKS
1. Manufacturing, Distribution and Laboratory Areas: To maintain
production efficiency and provide employees with an opportunity to relax and
get refreshments, paid breaks are part of scheduled work days. Your
supervisor will indicate the break period based on your work schedule. Food
and beverages are not permitted in these areas. To leave the property during
break periods, permission must be given by your supervisor. Do not leave
your work area without your supervisor's permission, except during
established break and lunch periods.
2. In the Office: Because refreshments are permitted in the office areas, no
formal break periods are designated. You may have beverages and snacks
at your desk. All GOJO stakeholders share in the responsibility of keeping
work spaces and meeting areas clean. Please clean up beverage spills and
discard any leftover food and litter in an appropriate refuse container in
Jerry’s Place.
3. Nursing Mothers: GOJO maintains quiet, private Comfort Rooms at both
GOJO Lippman Campus (in the Manufacturing Center) and at GOJO Plaza.
Nursing mothers with children up to age one are encouraged to sign up for
access in the HROD office for either location. Reasonable breaks are
allowed during this period of child’s first year to express breast milk during
work shift. Breaks beyond the standard two paid twenty minute breaks are
unpaid and non-exempt employees must use the time keeping device to start
and end nursing breaks as needed. Production and distribution employees
should inform supervisor when leaving work area.
4. Lunch: An unpaid lunch break may be scheduled depending on shift and
work area. You may leave the building, go to Jerry’s Place, or stay in your
work area (not an option within the Manufacturing or Distribution Center work
areas). Based on your standard assigned work schedule, your unpaid lunch
period will be automatically deducted from your work day. In the event a non-
exempt employee is required to work through a scheduled lunch period, the
supervisor must adjust the electronic timekeeping system to reflect the time
worked. You need to inform your supervisor when you take a longer lunch
period than the standard lunch, and when you work through a lunch period.
2. PAID HOLIDAYS
In certain years, the number of standard paid holidays will increase to include Rosh
Hashanah and Yom Kippur when they fall on weekdays. In addition, up to two Time Away
"floating" holidays will be selected each year. Selection will depend on where from Work
holidays fall in a year's calendar in order to provide as much personal leisure time P a g e | 15
and long weekends as possible. For example, "floating" holidays may include Good
Friday, Christmas Eve Day, or the day before / after Independence Day. See the
current year’s Holiday Schedule posted on myGOJO.com or on employee bulletin
boards.
If you are a regular status full time employee on the active payroll of the Company,
you will have the holidays off with regular pay, provided that you work your last full
scheduled work day before and your first full scheduled work day after the observed
holiday. Part-time employees should refer to the Part Time Benefits Policy. When an
observed holiday falls within an employee's vacation period, the employee will be
paid for the holiday, not a vacation day. Employees will be permitted time off without
pay for other religious observances when reasonable advance notice is given to the
supervisor.
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