Interrupted Unpaid Meal Period. When an employee’s unpaid meal period is interrupted by a directive from a supervisor to perform any work related activity, or the employee responds to an emergency consistent with Emergency Response procedures, the employee may be entitled to receive another thirty (30) minute meal period, if that meal period can be initiated no later than the fifth (5th) hour of the shift. (Sixth [6th] hour in the case of employees on the ten and one-half [10½] hour shift.) In the event an employee is unable to complete the unpaid meal period, due to operational necessity, the employee will be entitled to compensation for the entire thirty (30) minute meal period. Meal periods may not be used for late arrival or early departure from work and meal and rest periods will not be combined.
