CEC 30hour week and lunches

[johnpye]

Hi All

I am beginning to calculate my weekly hours and I have a few questions.

Should unpaid lunches or breaks count towards the weekly total.

E.g.- paid for 6.5 hours but with 30 min unpaid break/lunch . Would this count for 6.5 or 7 hours?

Should a week be calculated from Sunday to Saturday or Monday to Sunday- this makes a slight difference to my weekly calculation.

Thanks

John

 

[Ram_29]

The hours that are mentioned in your paystabs only will count if you are getting paid hourly .

 

[johnpye]

The hours that are mentioned in your paystabs only will count if you are getting paid hourly .

Yes I am getting paid hourly- any idea which value would be correct?

 

[jes_ON]

Hi All

I am beginning to calculate my weekly hours and I have a few questions.

Should unpaid lunches or breaks count towards the weekly total.

E.g.- paid for 6.5 hours but with 30 min unpaid break/lunch . Would this count for 6.5 or 7 hours?

Should a week be calculated from Sunday to Saturday or Monday to Sunday- this makes a slight difference to my weekly calculation.

??? If you work at least 5 days a week, this is simply "full time" (30 or more hours per week), you do not need to count hours (that is only for part-time workers).

If you worked part-time (fewer than 30 hours per week), then you count hours worked (not unpaid lunch breaks). In your example. 6.5 hours....

 

[johnpye]

Ok thanks for helping to clarify things - my contract offers no set hours, however i do tend to work 5-6 days a week on average between 6.5 and 7.5 hours a day.

During my calculation process:

• i have 36 weeks in which i have worked over 30 hours a week
• 11 weeks in which i have under 30 hours. (fte 8.6)

During some of those 11 weeks if i calculated the working week Sunday to Saturday it bumps the working week to over 30 hours ( and doesn't bring the previous or following week under 30), that's what i am trying to figure out.

On that same note, i am paid vacation 4% on my biweekly pay cheque and am allowed sick days but receive no pay.

To my understanding as i receive no compensation for sick days / hours then i can't count the time i've missed-e.g scheduled for a 6.5 hour day went home sick after 4.5 hours. My timesheet shows the 4.5 hours pay, this is all i am allowed to count. Is that correct?

With regards to holiday, guidelines state 2 weeks paid vacation. How would this work in my situation? (Time taken as holiday is not shown on the timesheet).

Would i be right making this calculation:

1- calculate average daily hours worked across a year.
2. Multiple this by 10 to give my number of hours over a 2 week period.

If so, then this would boost all 11 weeks to over 30 hours. Would this be allowed?

Thanks all

 

[jes_ON]

On that same note, i am paid vacation 4% on my biweekly pay cheque and am allowed sick days but receive no pay.

To my understanding as i receive no compensation for sick days / hours then i can't count the time i've missed-e.g scheduled for a 6.5 hour day went home sick after 4.5 hours. My timesheet shows the 4.5 hours pay, this is all i am allowed to count. Is that correct?

Correct, unfortunately, since sick pay is apparently not a benefit available to you.

With regards to holiday, guidelines state 2 weeks paid vacation. How would this work in my situation? (Time taken as holiday is not shown on the timesheet).

Your 4% vacation pay is the equivalent of 2 weeks. So you can count 2 weeks of vacation, but if you take more, you will have to treat it as unpaid leave (you have to exclude the time).

 

[jes_ON]

Ok thanks for helping to clarify things - my contract offers no set hours, however i do tend to work 5-6 days a week on average between 6.5 and 7.5 hours a day.

During my calculation process:

• i have 36 weeks in which i have worked over 30 hours a week
• 11 weeks in which i have under 30 hours. (fte 8.6)

During some of those 11 weeks if i calculated the working week Sunday to Saturday it bumps the working week to over 30 hours ( and doesn't bring the previous or following week under 30), that's what i am trying to figure out.

Go by the standard "work week" as determined by your company.

Would i be right making this calculation:

1- calculate average daily hours worked across a year.
2. Multiple this by 10 to give my number of hours over a 2 week period.

If so, then this would boost all 11 weeks to over 30 hours. Would this be allowed?

Umm... No....

I can't state that you would not get away with it, but if the VO asks you to prove your hours, you could potentially lose your eligibility.

If you are paid bi-weekly and your hours on your paystubs are for 2 weeks, you COULD get away with using 60 hours bi-weekly as "full-time."

Word of advice - if you are trying to massage your hours that much, you are trying to cut it way too close. Remember that one year (52 weeks) is the MINIMUM required. MINIMUM. I always recommend giving yourself a few extra weeks to ensure that a miscalculation does not derail your application. If you give yourself a buffer, make it obvious that you have more than a year, then you don't make the VO scrutinze your hours, do all these calculations, etc...