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 See the People’s Law School website for more on [https://www.peopleslawschool.ca/everyday-legal-problems/work/getting-paid/hours-work-and-working-overtime overtime pay].
-===Meal break===
+===Minimum daily pay===
-You can work for five hours without a break. After five hours, your employer has to give you a break of at least 30 minutes. An employer who requires an employee to work or be available for work during a meal break must count the meal break as time worked by the employee. Employers are not required to provide coffee
+If you’re covered by BC’s employment standards law and you come to work as your employer asks you to, you must be paid for at least two hours at your regular wage, even if you work less. If you have an averaging agreement and you agreed to work more than eight hours in a day, you must be paid for at least four hours, even if you work less.
-breaks.
+If you come to work but you are unfit to work because, for example, you have been drinking or because you forgot your safety equipment, your employer does not need to pay you minimum daily pay.
+See the People’s Law School website for more on [https://www.peopleslawschool.ca/everyday-legal-problems/work/getting-paid/hours-work-and-working-overtime minimum daily pay].
 ===Holidays you get paid for===