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Work Time: Weekly Hours and overtime What about averaging? (Note: This information pertains to residents of British Columbia and Ontario, and federal employees only.)
Your employer can ask you to sign an averaging agreement. This means your hours of work would be averaged over two, three or four weeks on the basis of the 40-hour-week standard.
For example: 80 hours could be averaged over two weeks, or 160 hours averaged over four weeks. So in the 80-hour example, you might work 60 hours the first week and 20 hours the next. But you'd get no overtime for the 60-hour week because the hours you worked over the two weeks average out to 40.
Once the agreement is signed, you must be paid overtime if you're asked to work more hours in a day than the schedule specifies. For example: If you're scheduled to work 8 hours or less, but are asked to work more, you'd get 1 ½-times your regular rate up to 12 hours, and double time after that. If you're scheduled to work 10 hours and work more, then you'd be paid 1½ times your regular rate between 10 and 12 hours, then double time after that.
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