Understanding overtime pay in Canada. Okay, before we break down what overtime is, let’s start by addressing the elephant in the room: There’s no special tax for overtime. No special rules. No hidden rates. It gets taxed exactly the same way as regular pay, regardless of how many h...
some areas, like Alberta, limit this to straight-time calculations. Alberta employees bank two overtime hours as two regular hours, while others ensure two hours at time-and-a-half rates are logged as three hours in the bank.
Amazon’s pay incentives were initially supposed to end at the end of April but the company extended the program in the U.S. and Canada through May 30. The retail company has been criticized by employees in the U.S. and Canada for allegedly not doing enough to protect w...