Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF › Title 93 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION PERSONNEL RULES › Chapter 15 - MISCELLANEOUS › Section 93-15-001 - Working Schedule

Current through June 17, 2024
A schedule of working hours, which reflect individual job
				  requirements, will be determined by the appropriate Office Administrator and
				  the immediate supervisor. All employees will use the electronic calendar
				  provided by the Department that will be accessible with full details to the
				  immediate supervisor, indirect supervisor of the employee, and to others as
				  directed by anyone in the employee's chain of command. All employees will
				  establish their schedule of work hours approved by their supervisor and record
				  that schedule of work hours in their electronic calendar. All employees are
				  accountable for a forty (40) hour workweek unless employed less than full-time
				  for which work hours for a workweek are equivalent to the percentage of their
				  employment for each week. All employees will record in advance on their
				  electronic calendar all meetings, travel, and leave time. Emergencies or
				  unforeseen medical needs are exceptions to advance recording so long as an
				  employee immediately provides a written explanation to their supervisor no
				  later than when first returning to work and promptly records the leave on their
				  electronic calendar.
001.01
Change in Work Schedule
. Supervisors will provide ten
				(10) workdays written notice to the affected employees prior to making changes
				in their permanent work schedules. The supervisor may temporarily change an
				employee's work schedule for cause without the ten (10) workday
				notification.
001.02
Lunch
. Each day, employees will have an unpaid lunch
				break of at least thirty (30) minutes and no more than sixty (60) minutes
				unless they are scheduled to work six (6) hours or less that day. If an
				employee is working six (6) hours or less and would like to forgo the lunch
				break, the supervisor can approve the request. Scheduling the time of the lunch
				break is subject to the approval of the immediate supervisor. Schedule requests
				will not be unreasonably denied by the supervisor. Employees may not take a
				lunch break for a shorter period of time than one-half (1/2) hour. A lunch
				break may not be saved for use in shortening the workday.
001.03
Breaks
. A
				rest break of fifteen (15) minutes may be taken during each four (4) hours an
				employee is on the job. Break time may not be saved for use in shortening the
				workday or in extending the lunch break. Rest breaks are considered work
				time.
001.04
Overtime
. Nothing contained in this Chapter will be
				construed as limiting the Department's right to require overtime work by
				employees, subject to the provisions of Chapter 8 of this Title.
001.05
Job Sharing
.
				Job sharing may be allowed by mutual agreement of the Deputy Commissioner, the
				appropriate Office Administrator, and the immediate supervisor. The Department
				will attempt to maintain job sharing arrangements in effect as of the effective
				date of this Chapter for as long as is practical and both involved employees
				remain employed in their current positions.