Weekly rest. 2.1 The working time of a salaried employee shall be arranged so that the employee receives a continuous weekly rest period of not less than 35 hours, scheduled where possible for Sunday or a day adjacent thereto. The said weekly rest may be arranged as an average of 35 hours over a period of 14 days. The weekly rest period shall nevertheless be not less than 24 hours in any week. The employer shall always notify a salaried employee of any averaging of weekly rest before work is carried out during weekly rest. 2.2 Weekly rest in continuous shift work may nevertheless be scheduled to average 35 hours per week over a period of 12 weeks, provided that it does not fall below 24 hours in any one week. 2.3 Weekly rest may be given at the end of a work week and the beginning of the next one as an uninterrupted period that takes place partly during the first and partly during the second work week, provided that most of the hours of the weekly rest take place during the week for which the weekly rest is applied to. 2.4 Exceptions to the provisions of this section governing weekly rest may occur: a) when the regular working time of a salaried employee does not exceed three hours in a 24-hour period; b) when a salaried employee is needed for emergency work; c) when the technical character of the work does not permit full job release of some salaried employees; d) when a salaried employee is temporarily needed for work during the weekly rest period in order to maintain a regular flow of work at the enterprise.
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Samples: Collective Agreement, Collective Agreement, Collective Agreement
