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Posts Tagged ‘employment law’

January 22nd, 2001

BC Meal Breaks

An employee must not work more than five hours in a row without a 30-minute unpaid meal break. An employee who is required to work or be available for work during a meal break must be paid for the meal break. Employers are not required to provide coffee breaks. Reprinted from http://www.labour.gov.bc.ca/esb/esaguide/#2

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January 22nd, 2001

BC Averaging Agreements

An employer and an employee can agree to average scheduled work hours over a period of 1, 2, 3 or 4 weeks. Averaging agreements must be in writing and, have a start date and an end date. Overtime is payable: After eight hours in a day if extra hours have been added to an employee’s […]