Posted on Jan 11, 2019
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WhAt is the actual time a 35 week pregnant soldier should be leaving for the duty day, I’ve seen and read every regulation but seem to get a million answers between 12-2-4 etc... can anyone please give me a legit time specifically from someone who works a hands on warehouse job?
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in AR 40-501, paragraph 7-9d, it lists what should be written on all pregnancy profiles. I had a second sheet added to the ones I received to list them all. Here is what 7-9d(12) states:

(12) At 28 weeks of pregnancy, the Soldier must be provided a 15-minute rest period every 2 hours. Her workweek should not exceed 40 hours and the Soldier must not work more than 8 hours in any 1 day. The 8-hour work day does include one hour for physical training (PT) and the hours worked after reporting to work or work call formation, but does not include the PT hygiene time and travel time to and from PT.

There wouldn't be an actual time that a pregnant Soldier would have to be done with their duty day by. The duty day (and essentially the duty week in this case) is defined by the number of hours, which is no more than 8 hours in a day and 40 hours for the week. So based on the paragraph above, if you do PT from say 0600-0700, that counts as 1 hour of your work day. You can't account for personal hygiene or clean up, so the remaining 7 hours of work for the day would begin when you report to work/work call formation. If you report at 0800, then you would be done with the duty day at 1500. But again, it all depends on the number of hours you work, not necessarily a set hard time of 1200 or 1400.

I also believe that great care needs to be taken by your supervisors to ensure you are in compliance with the rest of paragraph 7-9. I'm not sure what all your job entails in a warehouse, but it's worth a look. If you are having complications, absolutely go back to your doc. Your OB/Midwife may not be able to touch what your profile already states, but you could see a PA and they should be able to write an additional profile.
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I’m a rigger so I’m on the airfield
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MSgt Steven Holt, NRP, CCEMT-P
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Unless your doctor has specified reduced/restricted duty hours or tasks, normal duty requirements apply.

That being said, I would hope the responsible supervisor would use some common sense in assigning tasks and or duty hours.
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What he said. Reduced duties or duty hours are all profile-directed.
The maternity leave is regulation.
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I ask the same question to my fellow pregnants that worked at the SSA. A normally work hours for them were from 8AM to 2:00 PM. They stayed during lunch time .
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PO2 Willis Linn
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As an NCO, I worked with many female troops, and as far as gender went if you can work safely at your job while pregnant you'd stay, however Any NCO who is worth their salt, would already understand that and be watching closely for any work related problems and deal with all respectfully and fairly. Commands understand the need for troops to be on ready but this fact of life should never be a punishment, because it is just part of being human. and she's building a new future American.
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