Originally Posted by
UncleSam
Think of it this way - the 24 hr off is just like your last X-day. You don't have to answer the phone, but you still have the same responsibilities for checking your schedule.
Wrong. They may want it to be that way, and we may enable it by doing just that, but while on mandatory fed rest you are under NO OBLIGATION. None. No schedule check, nothing.
They can give you a trip that reports 1 minute after your rest but ONLY if they give it to you before you are released for that rest. If you go into that rest period with nothing on your line, the ONLY thing you can get is default long call starting at the end of your mandatory rest. Call your reps and scheduling supervisors to verify and they will tell you the same.