Our company overtime policy explains how we’ll compensate employees for hours worked beyond their standard schedule. We want to:
- Ensure employees will be consistently and correctly compensated for the time they put into their job duties.
- Minimize incidents of overtime abuse, loss of productivity, and health and safety issues.
This policy applies to all our current hourly employees.
“Overtime” that qualifies for compensation refers to any amount of time worked in addition to an employee’s regularly-scheduled shift hours, according to the laws set out by Alberta Employment Standards.
Overtime may be necessary to handle emergencies and heavy workloads (e.g. tire season), but frequent and excessive overtime isn’t good for employees’ health and performance.
Effective immediately, the following rules will apply to any overtime worked:
- There will be no approved overtime prior to the 8:00 A.M. start of any shift. No employee will begin work prior to shift start.
- There will be no approved overtime during lunch breaks. All employees are expected to take their half-hour lunch break during each shift. This ensures that all employees receive a rest period during their shift.
- Any overtime worked after the employee’s shift ends (i.e. after 4:30 P.M.) must be requested by a supervisor and authorized PRIOR to being worked. This means that no overtime work is to be performed unless the employee is specifically requested to do so by a supervisor (Joe Glumpak, Chris Mack or Alex Kormendy), and the supervisor must physically fill out an Overtime Request Card listing the work order number before any overtime work begins.
- After any overtime work is performed, the supervisor must again sign off on the overtime hours worked, listing the time the overtime ended.
- Any overtime worked without a prior request and authorization is considered to be not approved, and will not be paid.