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When you are required to be on duty for 24 hours or more, you and the employer may agree to exclude bona fide meal periods and a bona fide regularly scheduled sleeping period of not more than eight hours from hours worked.
Do you and your employer have an agreement to exclude a maximum eight hours of sleeping time plus meal periods from hours worked?
U.S. Department of Labor