how many consecutive hours can an employee work?
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British Columbia - Rest Periods Legislation in British Columbia provides for at least 32 consecutive hours off work each week. Should you be required to work during that rest period, your employer must pay you 1.5 times your regular hourly rate for each hour worked.
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Employment agreements must fix the maximum number of hours to be worked by the employee at not more than 40 hours per week (not including overtime) unless the employer and employee agree otherwise.
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Ontario - Rest Periods Workers in Ontario are entitled to a minimum 11 consecutive hours free from work each day and eight hours between shifts if the total hours worked on the two shifts would be more than 13 hours.
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An employee can earn holiday pay and overtime in the same week only if the employee spends more than 40 hours doing actual “work”.
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Employees who are exempt can work over 40 hours without additional compensation. Here's why: the FLSA and state fair labor standards legislation requires employees who work more than 40 hours in any work week to be paid time-and-a-half for those hours.
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Double the employee's regular rate of pay for all hours worked in excess of 12 hours in a workday. On the seventh consecutive day of work in a workweek, one and one-half times the employee's regular rate of pay for the first eight hours of work.
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Employees are paid time-and-a-half for any time worked over 40 hours worked in a week – even if an employee doesn't work more than eight hours in a day. A week is from Sunday to Saturday.
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A normal work shift is generally considered to be a work period of no more than eight consecutive hours during the day, five days a week with at least an eight-hour rest.
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We often get questions from employers and employees about whether salaried workers should be getting paid for these extra hours and what exactly counts as “overtime.” Let's dive in. Under the Ontario Employment Standards Act, 2000 (ESA) most employees can legally work a maximum of 8 hours per day and 48 hours per week.
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Employees shall be paid time and one-half of the regular rate of pay for any work in excess of: (1) forty hours per workweek; (2) twelve hours per workday, or (3) twelve consecutive hours without regard to the starting and ending time of the workday (excluding duty free meal periods), whichever calculation results in ...
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281.730). Public works. Employees on public works projects may not work more than 8 hours a day, or 40 hours a week, except in an emergency. Laborers who work in excess of these restrictions are entitled to time-and-a-half for each hour of overtime worked.
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§ 201 and following), the federal overtime law. The FLSA sets no limits on how many hours a day or week your employer can require you to work. It requires only that employers pay employees overtime (time and a half the worker's regular rate of pay) for any hours over 40 that the employee works in a week.
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So, how many hours can a nurse work straight? The max number of hours a nurse can work in a row is usually 16 hours. Though many facilities will limit nurses to working no more than 12 hours straight.
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Calculating working hours Employees can work more than 48 hours a week as long as the working time does not exceed 48 hours per week when it is averaged out over the 17 week period. If your employee has more than one job then their working hours shouldn't exceed more than 48 hours a week on average.
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Double the employee's regular rate of pay for all hours worked in excess of 12 hours in a workday. On the seventh consecutive day of work in a workweek, one and one-half times the employee's regular rate of pay for the first eight hours of work. Double the regular rate of pay for all hours worked over eight.
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A work period of eight consecutive hours over five days with at least eight hours of rest in between shifts defines a standard shift. Any shift that goes beyond this standard is considered to be extended or unusual.
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The problem in Michigan: There is no law limiting the number of hours nurses can be forced to work (consecutive or cumulative). Many hospital RNs already work 12-hour- shifts, so forcing them to stay longer can push them into a shift of 16, 18 or even 20 hours straight.