The ability to collectively negotiate the terms and conditions of your employment, including your hours of work and overtime, is an important advantage of being a unionized professional.
Your Collective Agreement defines the parameters of hours of work and overtime in Article 45.
Collective Agreement Article: 45
First Published: August 12, 2020
Last Updated: October 29, 2025
Your hours of work and overtime
The regular workday is 7.25 hours of work.
The regular work week is 36.25 hours of work.
All overtime hours must be authorized by your manager. While it is not required for you to see pre-approval to work overtime hours, it is a best practice to seek their approval beforehand.
Full-time employees
Full-time employees, whether permanent or temporary, at Waypoint are entitled to receive compensating leave time of:
- 1.5 hours for each hour worked more than 7.25 hours on a regularly scheduled workday; or
- 1.5 hours for each hour worked more than 72.5 hours in a pay period.
You are also entitled to receive compensating leave time of 1.5 hours for each hour worked on your regularly scheduled day off.
Refusing overtime and the impact of overtime on mental and physical health
Frequent overtime can be stressful, affect your work-life balance, and lead to burn-out. If frequent overtime demands are becoming a challenge, please seek the assistance of a Workplace Representative at Waypoint.
If the stress, timing, or other factors associated with overtime demands are significantly impacting your mental or physical health, it may be necessary to request an accommodation.
How to take your accumulated compensating leave time
Requesting your time off
- You can request to take your accumulated compensating leave time at any time.
- As with any time off, it should be mutually agreed upon between you and your supervisor, but they cannot unreasonably deny your request.
If you would prefer to receive pay instead
- You can request to receive pay in lieu of compensating leave time.
If you still have remaining leave time on December 31
- Work with your supervisor to mutually agree on a schedule for you to take your leave before March 31.
- Any remaining leave not taken by March 31 will be paid to you as a lump sum based on your salary rate when you earned the leave time. It will be paid within one month.
Shift Premium
If you are required to work between 5 pm and 7 am, you will receive a shift premium of $1.50 for each hour worked during those times. (Article 49 of the Waypoint Collective Agreement)
You are not entitled to this shift premium if:
- your usual hours of work are between 5 pm and 7 am; or
- you worked between 5 pm and 7 am for mutually agreed upon reasons.
Call back
If you are called back to work after leaving the hospital outside of your regular scheduled hours, you will be paid twice your hourly rate and for a minimum of four hours, even if you are called back for less.
If you are called back to work and it overlaps and extends into your regularly scheduled shift, you will receive both four hours’ wages at twice your hourly rate and your regularly hourly rate for what remains of your regular shift.
On call
If you are required to be on call (standby) for call-back duty outside of your regularly scheduled hours, you will receive $3.30 per hour of standby time ($4.90 per hour if it falls on a holiday listed in the Collective Agreement).
If you end up working during your time spent on call, those hours will not qualify for standby pay.
Even if you are called back to work, you are entitled to a minimum of $5.00 for every eight hour period spent on standby.
Frequently asked questions
Can my supervisor ask me to work overtime without compensation?
No.
Your supervisor or another Employer representative cannot, and should not, request or permit you to work overtime without compensation when that work would otherwise be compensated.
Can I submit a claim for overtime if I am required to carry a mobile phone or computer for work?
Maybe.
Carrying a mobile phone or computer for work is not considered overtime.
However, if there is an expectation from your supervisor that you respond to an email or phone call, or conduct work outside of your normal working hours, you should claim that as overtime.
Can I claim travel time outside my regular hours of work as overtime?
If you are required to travel for work, you can claim the time spent travelling to the destination as overtime if it is outside your regular hours of work.
Time spent in a hotel room after you have travelled to your destination is not included, unless you can prove that you were working at the time. Time spent travelling from your hotel room to your meeting or conference is also not included.
Time travelled to and from your home to your regular workplace is not included.
Can I claim overtime under the AMAPCEO Collective Agreement if I am temporarily assigned to a non-bargaining unit position?
No.
If you are temporarily assigned to a non-AMAPCEO position, your hours of work and overtime are set by the terms and conditions of the non-bargaining unit position. This means that the AMAPCEO overtime and hours of work provisions do not apply.
If you have questions or need assistance
Please contact an AMAPCEO Workplace Representative at Waypoint, and get in touch by email.
Workplace Representatives are trained union members who have volunteered to confidentially assist members like you in the workplace. They should be your first point of contact in seeking information and representation with an issue at work.
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