The length of the lunch period is thirty (30) minutes or one hour (department policy). Bona fide lunch periods during the
scheduled workday are not considered as worktime. The employee must be completely relieved from duty for the purpose of eating
regular meals. Bona fide meal periods do not include coffee breaks or time for snacks. The latter are counted as part of an
employee's working time. Where an employee's otherwise bona fide meal periods are uninterrupted except for rare and infrequent
emergency calls, the meal period can be excluded from compensable working time, except on those occasions when the period
is actually interrupted. On the other hand, if the meal periods are frequently interrupted by calls to duty, the employee
would not be considered relieved of all duties, and all the meal periods must be counted as hours worked.
(b)
If an employee is completely freed from duties during his meal period, it is not necessary that he be permitted to leave the
premises for the time to be excluded from working time.
(Ord. of 12-20-76, § 7.3)
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