Split Shifts - Act Part 4, Section 33
Contents:
Summary
Text of Legislation
Policy Interpretation
Related Information
Summary
This section details the time-frame for completion of a split shift.
Text of Legislation
33. An employer must ensure that an employee working a split shift completes the shift within 12 hours of starting work.
Policy Interpretation
The length of a work day is limited to a maximum of 12 hours for employees who work a split shift. Work must be completed within 12 hours from the start of the shift.
If a split shift exceeds 12 hours in any day, the director may issue a determination requiring an employer to cease contravening this section of the Act. Where a determination is issued under s.79 of the Act administrative penalties apply, subject to s.98 of the Act.
Under s.72 an employer and any of its employees may join in a written application to the director to vary the provisions of s.33.
Employees covered by a collective agreement
If a collective agreement contains any provisions about hours of work or overtime that meet or exceed the requirements of Part 4, those provisions of the collective agreement replace the Act’s requirements for employees covered by the agreement. Otherwise, the Act’s requirements are deemed to be incorporated in the collective agreement.
Where there is a collective agreement, disputes respecting the application, interpretation or operation of Part 4 must be resolved through the grievance procedure, not through the enforcement provisions of the Act.
Certain employees are exempt from this Section, or Part 4 entirely, under the Employment Standards Regulation.
Related Information
Related sections of the Act or Regulation
ESA
- s.1, Definition “day”
- s.1, Definition “employee”
- s.1, Definitions “regular wage”
- s.1, Definitions “work”
- s.3, Scope of the Act
- s.28, Payroll records
- s.32, Meal Breaks
- s.37, Agreements to average hours of work
- s.39, No excessive hours
- s.40, Overtime wages
- s.72, Application for variance
- s.79, Determinations
ESR
- s.29, Administrative Penalties
- s.30, How to apply for a variance
- s.33, Exclusions from Parts of the Act and this regulation
- s.34, Exclusions from hours of work and overtime requirements
- s.34.1, Hours of work and overtime for farm workers
- s.35, Resident caretakers
- s.37, Fishers
- s.37.2, Logging truck drivers
- s.37.3, Truck drivers
- s.37.4, Newspaper Carriers
- s.37.7, Loggers working in interior
- s.37.8, High technology companies
- s.37.9, Silviculture workers
- s.37.12, Aquaculture – fin fish workers
- s.37.13, Mining
- s.37.14, Commission sales