Quebec restaurant labor laws

Quebec: overtime after 40h a week, $16.60 minimum wage, 30-min meal break after 5h, night limits for minors. Every figure sourced.

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

Updated October 16, 2026

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What the engine does not model here

Quebec sets a weekly rest of 32 consecutive hours rather than a daily one; that is not checked here.

Overtime

Daily: No separate rule*
Weekly: after 40h · 1.5×
Double time: No separate rule*

Rest between shifts: No separate rule*
Eating period: 30 min after 5h
Minimum wage: $16.60since 2026-05-01
Default time zone: America/Toronto

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

Public holidays · 8

Canada DayJuly 1premium pay
Christmas DayDecember 25premium pay
Good Friday2 days before Easterpremium payor Easter Monday (1 day after Easter), at the employer's choice
Labour Dayfirst Monday in Septemberpremium pay
New Year's DayJanuary 1premium pay
National Patriots' DayMonday on or before May 24premium pay
National HolidayJune 24premium pay
Thanksgivingsecond Monday in Octoberpremium pay

Youth hours

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

Under 14
Not permitted
Under 14 may work only with a parent's written consent and only in listed work — newspaper delivery, babysitting, artistic production, a family business.
Ages 14 to 15
School week
17h
Not between 11 p.m. and 6 a.m.
Also a maximum of 10 of those 17 hours from Monday to Friday, which is not checked here. The limits apply during the school year and are lifted for any break of more than seven consecutive days. The night rule is written as being home by 11 pm and not leaving before 6 am.

Source: quebec.ca/

Minors →

What ShiftNivo checks for you here

Overtime after 40 hours in a week, priced as you build, with a warning four hours before anyone crosses it.
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.
8 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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