Workers must get one 24-hour rest period every calendar week.
The Illinois One Day Rest in Seven Act (ODRISA) requires employers to give workers at least one 24-hour rest period per calendar week. The 2023 ODRISA amendment expanded coverage and clarified that the rest must be 24 consecutive hours — not split across two days. Workers can voluntarily waive the rest period for one calendar week, but written authorization is required and waivers don't roll over.
Day of Rest Enforcement
Tracks consecutive days worked per worker per calendar week. Blocks scheduling that would create a 7-consecutive-day pattern without a written waiver on file.
What those rules do as the schedule approaches 7 consecutive days.
The hero card configuration: Critical on the 7-day pattern risk, Block on schedule publish without compliance.
When a worker's schedule would result in 7 consecutive days worked within a calendar week, Teambridge surfaces a Critical indicator. Manager must redistribute or get a written waiver before publish.
If a 7-day-or-more consecutive pattern is published without either a 24-hour rest period or a written voluntary waiver on file, the publish is blocked. The system logs the block.
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Calendar week, 24 consecutive hours, voluntary waiver narrowly available.
The day-of-rest rule sounds simple but tracking it requires per-worker, per-week consecutive-day counting. The rule is straightforward; the operational work is real.
Calendar week, not rolling
The 24-hour rest must occur within a calendar week (Sunday-Saturday by default, though employers can designate). The rule does NOT require 24 hours of rest within any rolling 7-day period — it's calendar-week based. A worker can technically work 12 days in a row if their rest periods land at the boundaries of two calendar weeks.
24 consecutive hours
The rest must be 24 consecutive hours, not 24 hours total split across the week. A worker who has 12 hours off Monday night plus 12 hours off Wednesday morning has not received the day-of-rest. The rest must be a single uninterrupted 24-hour stretch.
Teambridge tracks consecutive days per worker per calendar week.
Day-of-rest tracking is the kind of compliance work that's invisible until it's not. Teambridge runs the count automatically.
Week start configured per location.
Each location's calendar week is configured (Sunday-Saturday by default). Per-worker day-of-rest tracking runs against the configured boundary.
Real-time per-worker count.
Every shift accepted is checked against the worker's prior shifts in the calendar week. The system tracks the running consecutive-day count.
Surface before the 7th day
When a worker would be scheduled for a 7th consecutive day in the calendar week, a Critical indicator surfaces before publish. Manager can redistribute or initiate a written waiver.
Per-week, signed, non-rolling.
Voluntary waivers are tracked per-worker, per-calendar-week, with signed documentation. Waivers do not roll over — each week requires a fresh waiver to override the rule.
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