Supervisors shall grant employees a 30-60-minute unpaid meal period for each workday of 6 or more hours. Meal periods shall not be taken before 1 hour after the employee arrives at work, or 1 hour before the employee leaves work. Unlike rest periods, meal periods are not considered work time and are not paid or considered part of the 40-hour work week, unless relief is not available and the employee must work during the meal period. Scheduling of these periods is at the discretion of the supervisor, but the supervisor will attempt to schedule the meal period at approximately the middle of a workday.

Amended July 9, 2015; amended October 23, 2024, effective January 1, 2025.