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Your new employer is insisting that you buy the company uniform, which costs a whopping $80! What’s more, he says that you are entitled to only 20 minutes for meal breaks and that your work schedule will consist of continuous 15-day cycles. You wonder whether all these demands are lawful...
In this Infosheet, Éducaloi explains how the law regulates workplace matters such as uniforms, meals, coffee breaks, and weekly rest.   
Your employer. If you are working for minimum wage, the rule is that your employer has to supply you with the specific clothing required.
However, if you make more than minimum wage, your employer can deduct a certain amount from your salary to pay for the uniform. The amount deducted must not reduce your salary to an amount below minimum wage. Do you think your employer is deducting too much for your uniform? Call the Commission des normes du travail to speak with a customer services agent. If you are an employee working for tips, to see if you earn more than the minimum wage you must add the tips you receive to your hourly wage. 
The employer. When the clothing you wear to work identifies you as an employee of the business, the employer is obliged to provide it for free, whatever the salary you earn.
No. Your employer cannot force you to buy the clothing or accessories that he is selling. If your employer demands that you wear clothing from his store, he must supply them to you for free.
No. Your employer cannot demand any payment to cover the costs of doing business. But be careful! You still have to act responsibly. If you handle money or fragile objects in the course of your work and you are careless, your employer can hold you responsible for the losses that result.
If you earn the minimum wage, your employer cannot deduct money for the upkeep of your uniform from your salary.
If you earn more than the minimum wage, but after deducting the expenses to maintain the uniform, your salary would equal less than the minimum, your employer cannot deduct these sums from your salary. But if you make more than minimum wage and after deductions for uniform maintenance, your salary is equal to or greater than the minimum wage, your employer can deduct this cost from your salary.
Yes. The Act respecting labour standards does not oblige your employer to give you a coffee break. However, your employer must pay you for the coffee break if he allows you to take one. Your employer determines the duration of the coffee break.
No. After 5 consecutive hours of work, you are entitled to a meal break of at least 30 minutes. Your employer is not obliged to pay you for the meal break.
No. While meal breaks are generally unpaid, your employer must pay you for any meal break where you are obliged to remain available for work or at your workstation.
No. In most employment situations, you are entitled to a minimum weekly rest of 32 consecutive hours. A decree or a collective agreement might allow the employer to change how the employee work hours are staggered.
In the case of agricultural workers, the rest period can be moved to the next week, but only if the worker consents. The Commission des normes du travail may also authorize employers to stagger their work hours on a basis other than weekly. For example, some companies in the James Bay area require their employees to work 14 consecutive days, after which they are entitled to a full week of rest – well-deserved!
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