Right to rest between work shifts

(a) In general An employee of a covered employer may decline, without penalty, to work any work shift or on-call shift that is scheduled or otherwise occurs— (1) less than 11 hours after the end of the work shift or on-call shift for the previous day; or (2) during the 11 hours following the end of a work shift or on-call shift that spanned 2 days. (b) Consent (1) In general An employee may consent to work a shift as described in subsection (a), if the covered employer obtains the employee’s consent in writing. Such consent may be for each such shift or for multiple shifts. (2) Revocation An employee may revoke the consent provided under paragraph (1), in writing, at any time during the employment. (c) Compensation For each instance that an employee of a covered employer works a shift described in subsection (a), the covered employer shall compensate the employee at 1.5 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.