Originally Posted by
UncleSam
Don't want to argue with anyone, but here's what I was told by SL (Sched Comm Chair) in Dec. 2010. Maybe it's been redefined.
"The only way they can assign you something that starts immediately after your rest is if you were notified of that prior to entering said rest. If you do not have such notification, then the earliest they can give you an assignment would be five hours after rest ends if the assignment was placed on your line prior nine hours before rest ends or 10 hours for SC/12 hours for a rotation if placed after the nine hour point. They can call you all they want during rest and you have absolutely no obligation to answer the phone. Your acknowledgement of an assignment would be three hours before report or two hours before a SC start."
You will note that nowhere does it say you have to check your schedule during the 24 hr of rest, but you could be on the hook as early as 5 hr following the rest.
But you can't be "on the hook" at the end of the rest (or even 5 hours later) if they want you to be, yet also be at rest during that same 5 hours if they want you to be, before knowing what they want you to be.
The 5 hour/3 hour thing is fine and legal in and of itself, but you can't look back retroactively at that time as a 5 hour continuation of your rest just to pad your max duty day for scheduling's convenience. So by that logic, they can do the 5 hour thing all they want, but you would then have an 11 hour duty day max to be in compliance with the FAR's.