Meal Provisions and Rest Periods. SECTION 1. Employees shall not be required to work more than five (5) hours from the start of the shift without at least a one-half (½) hour meal break. This meal break shall not begin earlier than three (3) hours after the start of an eight (8) hour shift, or five (5) hours after the start of a ten (10) hour shift, and shall be unpaid. The Employer may instruct that employees work beyond the five (5) hours before taking their meal break, to perform work of an urgent nature and those employees are to be paid an amount equal to the applicable overtime wage (including fringes) and are to be considered to be on overtime until they are allowed to eat their meal.
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Samples: Shoring Master Agreement, Master Agreement, Master Agreement
