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