regular working hours is considered hours worked if they are performed pursuant to a manager's instructions. OVERNIGHT TRAVEL When employees must take a trip by car, train, or other transportation that keeps them away from home overnight, time spent traveling must be counted as time worked. However, bona fide meal periods, as well as time where the employee is engaged in purely personal pursuits (i.e. sight-seeing) will be excluded. Once at the location away from home, travel to and from the different or new job or meeting site is also to be calculated at hours worked. Employees who are asked to travel will be given a Travel Time Pay Agreement to review and complete prior to beginning work travel. EMPLOYEE REIMBURSEMENT Employees will be reimbursed for all authorized expenses incurred while involved in AJK activities. These expenses can consist of but are not limited to: commercial transportation, meals, lodging expenditures, and job materials or supplies. An expense report, properly filled out and coded, must be approved by your immediate supervisor. AJK will make every effort to see that the properly completed expense is reimbursed to you on the week following the date it was received. LACTATION POLICY You have the right to request, and AJK will provide, accommodations required for employees to express breast milk as necessary. Employees should notify their immediate supervisor or the HR Manager to request accommodations to express breast milk under this policy. AJK will provide a reasonable amount of break time to accommodate an employee’s need to express breast milk for the employee’s infant child. The break time should, if possible, be taken concurrently with meal and rest periods already provided. Non-exempt employees should clock out for additional lactation breaks that do not run concurrently with normally scheduled meal and rest periods. Such additional breaks will be unpaid. AJK additionally will provide employees needing to express breast milk with a room or place, other than a restroom, to express breast milk in private. The room or location will be near the employee’s work area, shielded from view, and free from intrusion while the employee is expressing milk. In addition, the room or location will be safe, clean, and free of hazardous materials. It will contain a surface on which to place a breast pump and personal items, as well as a place to sit. It will provide access to electricity needed to operate an electric or battery- powered breast pump. A sink with running water and a refrigerator or cooler suitable for storing milk will also be made available as close as possible to the employee’s workspace. If a multipurpose room is used for lactation, among other uses, the use of the room for lactation will take precedence over the other uses, but only for the time it is in use for lactation purposes. If we are unable to provide a permanent space for lactation due to operational, financial, or space limitations, we will provide a temporary space other than a restroom that is near the employee’s Revised January 2024 Page 15 of 55
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