Sec. 5. Right to rest between work shifts
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An employee employed by a covered employer may decline, without penalty, to work any work shift or on-call shift that is scheduled or otherwise occurs— less than 11 hours after the end of the work shift or on-call shift for the previous day; or during the 11 hours following the end of a work shift or on-call shift that spanned 2 days. An employee employed by a covered employer may— consent to work a shift described in subsection
(a)in writing, either for each such shift or for multiple shifts; and may revoke such consent in writing at any time during employment. For each instance that an employee employed by a covered employer works a shift described in subsection (a), the covered employer shall compensate the employee at one and one-half times the employee’s scheduled rate of pay for the hours worked that are less than 11 hours apart from the hours worked during the previous shift.