Break Schedule Tool

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Customize your schedule preferences and optimization rules

Organize departments into groups for optimized break scheduling. Employees in the same group will have their breaks coordinated to maintain coverage.

Set your store's operating hours for each day. The tool uses these hours to determine when to optimize coverage during break scheduling.

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How early any break can be scheduled before the ideal time. Higher values give more flexibility for coverage optimization.
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How late any break can be scheduled past the ideal time. Higher values give more flexibility for coverage optimization.
Meal Period Placement
Preferred placement of meal periods relative to worked time since clock-in. 4:00, 4:15, and 4:30 are recommended. Shifts approaching 10 hours have a narrow legal window — the actual meal placement is always clamped to the legal range, so this is a preference, not a guarantee.
Coverage Optimization Weights
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How much to prioritize same-department coverage over overall group coverage. Higher values mean breaks are scheduled to maintain department coverage first, then group coverage second.
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How strongly to prefer ideal break times when coverage scores are similar. Higher values mean breaks stay closer to ideal times (2 hours for rest, 4 hours for meals).
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California Labor Law Requirements

California DLSE Rest and Meal Periods

This tool automatically schedules breaks in compliance with California law and REI policy, while optimizing coverage to maintain service levels.

Rest periods

Employers are required to give each employee at least a ten (10) minute paid break for each four (4) hours worked (or major fraction of four (4) hours). If an employee works three and one-half (3½) hours or less, it is not required that a break be given to that employee. Breaks should be given to employees as near to the middle of the four (4) hours segment of time as is practical.

  • 3:30+ hours: 1 rest break
  • 6:00+ hours: 2 rest breaks
  • 10:00+ hours: 3 rest breaks

Meal periods

An employer may not employ an employee for a work period of more than five (5) hours per day without providing the employee with a meal period of not less than thirty (30) minutes. If the total work period per day is no more than six (6) hours, the meal period may be waived by mutual consent of both employer and employee. A second meal period of not less than thirty (30) minutes is required if an employee works more than ten (10) hours per day.

  • 5:00+ hours: 1 meal period
  • 10:00+ hours: 2 meal periods
REI Policy

Rest periods

  • REI provides 15-minute rest breaks
  • Scheduled approximately two hours into each work period

Meal periods

  • 30-minute unpaid meal period
  • Scheduled approximately 4:00-4:30 hours into the shift
Enables a new style of formatting that isolates one department per page. This feature is currently under development.