Common use of Reduced Meal Period/Early Return Buyout Option Clause in Contracts

Reduced Meal Period/Early Return Buyout Option. For the first meal period, the Employer may institute a reduced thirty (30) minute meal period for each Employee providing such meal is paid through as time worked. For the second and subsequent meal periods, at the discretion of the Crew Representative, the one (1) hour meal period may be reduced by a maximum of thirty (30) minutes providing an “early return buyout” premium is paid to each employee. The early return buyout premium shall be $2.50 for each 1/10th hour (6 minute) increment or any portion thereof.