Alberta restaurant labor laws

Alberta: overtime after 8h a day or 44h a week, $15.00 minimum wage, 30-min meal break after 5h, 8h rest between shifts, night limits for minors.

The figures ShiftNivo schedules against in Alberta, read from the source linked at the bottom of this page.

Updated September 21, 2026

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What the engine does not model here

Overtime is the greater of the daily and weekly figures, never their sum.

Overtime

Daily: after 8h · 1.5×
Weekly: after 44h · 1.5×
Double time: No separate rule*

Rest between shifts: 8h
Eating period: 30 min after 5h
Minimum wage: $15.00since 2018-10-01
Default time zone: America/Edmonton

* “No separate rule” means the engine does not enforce one here. That is not the same as saying the jurisdiction has none.

Public holidays · 9

Canada DayJuly 1premium pay
Christmas DayDecember 25premium pay
Family Daythird Monday in Februarypremium pay
Good Friday2 days before Easterpremium pay
Labour Dayfirst Monday in Septemberpremium pay
New Year's DayJanuary 1premium pay
Remembrance DayNovember 11premium pay
Thanksgivingsecond Monday in Octoberpremium pay
Victoria DayMonday on or before May 24premium pay

Youth hours

The bands the product checks for Alberta, read from the jurisdiction's own source. Permits, supervision and exemptions sit underneath every band, and each one says what is not checked.

Under 13
Not permitted
Under 13 may work only in artistic performance, with a permit.
Ages 13 to 14
School day
2h
Non-school day
8h
Not between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m.
In food service a 13- or 14-year-old must be under continuous adult supervision at all times.
Ages 15 to 17
Not between 12:01 a.m. and 6 a.m.
Between 9 pm and midnight in a restaurant, a 15- to 17-year-old must work alongside someone 18 or over. That is not checked here.

Source: alberta.ca/youth-employment-laws

Minors →

What ShiftNivo checks for you here

Overtime after 8 hours in a day or 44 in a week, priced as you build and never counted twice, with a warning four hours before anyone crosses the weekly line.
Fewer than 8 hours of rest between two shifts.
A shift longer than 5 hours without its 30-minute eating period.
Workers under 18: the minimum age, the hours in a day and in a week, and the evening limit, read from a birth date and marked as errors, not warnings.
9 public holidays, each flagged the week before it arrives and priced at its premium, split at midnight.
Everywhere: double bookings, approved time off, and shifts outside the hours someone said they can work.

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Next door

The rules one border over, for a second location or a team that crosses it.

The federal standard: Federal (Canada Labour Code) →All 66 jurisdictions →

This is reference data, not legal advice.

Every figure on this page was read from the source linked beside it and carries the date it took effect. Minimum wages are indexed once or twice a year in most jurisdictions — usually on 1 April or 1 October — so this table is reviewed on a schedule rather than when somebody notices.

Employment standards change, and a restaurant's obligations depend on facts no software can see: an exemption, a collective agreement, a municipal ordinance, the particular job somebody does. Some rules are deliberately not modeled, and where that is true this page says which.

Treat these figures as a starting point. Confirm them against the source before relying on them for pay, and take advice about your own situation.

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