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You have no obligation to check your schedule during assigned rest.
At the end of the rest period you simply go on long call.
The exception is if you have been notified of an assignment PRIOR to the start of your rest period.
ie= They can assign you 30 hours of rest with a report for a trip or start of short call one minute after your rest ends -- but they have to notify you before the rest period begins.
Also be careful of 6 hours assigned rest followed by a single X day. That's often how they handle single X days. ie= Assigned rest from 6 PM to midnight on Tuesday when Wednesday is an X day.
In that case you are getting your legal 30 hour break but you DO have to check your schedule after 3 PM on the "last X day".
I actually had this exact same scenario yesterday. I had a 9 day reserve stretch. Converted to short call on the first 4 days and then left on LC for day 5. Converted to SC on day 6 and then put into a 30 hour rest (that they notified me about). 16 hours into my 30 hour rest, they put a trip on my line that reported 8.5 hours after I started LC again. I called ALPA scheduling to ask if this was ok. The short answer was "yes...the 30-hour rest period is treated like your last X-day prior to a reserve period. So as long as they have the trip on your line 9 hours prior to when you go back on LC, then it is a legal assignment." Take it for what it's worth, but I just fought that monkey yesterday.