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, add the overtime to contract rules.
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:
Open Jobs, tap your job, then Contract rules.
Tap Daily overtime or Weekly overtime.
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.
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.
Suggested image: the Daily overtime rule with two tiers.
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.
Good to know
Some jobs are exempt from overtime, such as some managers. If yours is, turn it on under Exemptions in your job's settings.
Averaging agreements, where overtime is worked out over several weeks, can't be set up in Paycheq yet.
Estimates only. Not legal advice.