Daily and weekly overtime

Overtime is the extra you’re paid for long days or long weeks. Paycheq uses your province’s rules, or your contract’s if you’ve set them up, and works it out for you.

Your province’s overtime

These are the law’s minimums, as Paycheq uses them:

• British Columbia 1.5× after 8 hours in a day, 2× after 12. 1.5× after 40 hours in a week, counting only the first 8 hours of each day.
• Alberta 1.5× after 8 hours in a day or 44 in a week, whichever gives more overtime.
• Saskatchewan 1.5× after 8 hours in a day or 40 in a week, whichever gives more.
• Manitoba 1.5× after 8 hours in a day or 40 in a week.
• Ontario 1.5× after 44 hours in a week. No daily overtime.
• New Brunswick After 44 hours in a week, at 1.5× the minimum wage.
• Nova Scotia 1.5× after 48 hours in a week.
• Prince Edward Island 1.5× after 44 hours in a week.
• Newfoundland and Labrador After 40 hours in a week, at 1.5× the minimum wage.
• Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut 1.5× after 8 hours in a day or 40 in a week. In a week with a holiday, weekly overtime starts sooner.
• Federal sector 1.5× after 8 hours in a day or 40 in a week, whichever gives more.

In New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador, the law’s overtime is based on the minimum wage. Many employers pay 1.5× your own rate instead. If yours does:

1. Open Jobs and tap your job.
2. Under Labour rules, turn on My employer pays overtime at 1.5× my rate.

Paycheq never pays overtime below the law’s amount. If 1.5× your rate is ever less than 1.5× the minimum wage, it uses the minimum wage and tells you. If your union contract has its own overtime rules, they’re used instead, and the switch doesn’t show.

Your contract’s overtime

With a union contract, your overtime comes from your contract rules. You set it during setup, and you can change it any time:

1. Open Jobs, tap your job, then Contract rules.
2. Tap Daily overtime or Weekly overtime.
3. Each tier reads “After __ hours, pay __×”, such as after 8 hours pay 1.5×, and after 10 hours pay 2×. Tap Add a tier for another.
4. Tap Save on the job.

For weekly overtime, Hours that count decides which hours add up toward the week:

• All hours
• Hours not already overtime: hours already paid as daily overtime don’t count twice.
• Each day’s first hours: only the first so many hours of each day count.

Top rate continues until a rest break, on daily overtime, keeps the top rate going into later work, even past midnight or into the next shift, until you’ve had that many hours off.

How Paycheq counts the hours

• Paid time counts. Unpaid breaks don’t.
• A day’s hours include every shift that day, so two short shifts can add up to overtime.
• A shift that crosses midnight follows your province’s rules for which day the hours belong to.
• Weekly overtime uses your work week. To change it with a contract, use Work week starts under How rules combine.

Averaging agreements

Some employers and workers sign an averaging agreement, so weekly overtime is worked out over several weeks instead of one. For example, in Ontario, over 2 weeks you’d get overtime after 88 hours in total instead of after 44 in each week.

Only use this if you’ve signed an averaging agreement. To set one up:

1. Open Jobs and tap your job.
2. Under Labour rules, turn on Averaging agreement.
3. Choose how many weeks it covers under Over.
4. Set First period starts to the first day of the first averaging period. Later periods follow one after another.
5. Tap Save.

The switch only shows where your province allows averaging. Your province sets the longest period you can choose. On Pay and Week, overtime then says Averaged over and the number of weeks.

Paycheq doesn’t know your daily schedule. Where your province also has daily overtime, such as British Columbia and Alberta, daily overtime uses the usual daily limits, and Paycheq tells you. With a union contract, averaging changes only the labour rules figure shown beside your contract’s.

Estimates only. Not legal advice.