Overtime is paid at 1.5 times the regular rate after 44 hours in a week.
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Applies to
Employees covered by the ESA, 2000; regulations may exempt some work or prescribe a threshold other than 44 hours (s. 22(1), (9)), not recorded here
Multiplier
1.5
Alternative schemes
Group
employees who have made an averaging agreement with the employer
Condition
s. 22(2): hours of work may be averaged over separate, non-overlapping, contiguous periods of two or more consecutive weeks for the purpose of determining the employee's entitlement, if any, to overtime pay if (a) the employee has made an agreement with the employer that his or her hours of work may be averaged over periods of a specified number of weeks; and (b) the averaging period does not exceed four weeks or the number of weeks specified in the agreement, whichever is lower
an employer shall pay an employee overtime pay of at least one and one-half times his or her regular rate for each hour of work in excess of 44 hours in each work week or, if another threshold is prescribed, that prescribed threshold. … An employee’s hours of work may be averaged over separate, non-overlapping, contiguous periods of two or more consecutive weeks for the purpose of determining the employee’s entitlement, if any, to overtime pay if,
(a) the employee has made an agreement with the employer that his or her hours of work may be averaged over periods of a specified number of weeks; and
(b) the averaging period does not exceed four weeks or the number of weeks specified in the agreement, whichever is lower.