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Standard Hours of Work

If you are an employee in a federally regulated industry, the standard hours of work, or working hours, are:

• eight hours in a day
• 40 hours in a week

The Canada Labour Code defines a day as any period of 24 consecutive hours. A week is the period between midnight on Saturday and midnight on the Saturday that immediately follows.

Federally regulated employees are all entitled to one full day of rest each week, which usually falls on a Sunday.

During a week when one or more holidays occur, the number of hours you can work is reduced by eight hours for each holiday.

Several industries, however, have adopted different standard hours of work for certain employees, for example the trucking industry. However, surveys may be conducted by the Labour Program to determine if an industrial practice exists within a geographical area.

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Date Modified:

2012-02-15