To manage working time effectively by introducing mutually beneficial work
schedules responsive to changing employer/employee needs and to help alleviate
transportation problems in metropolitan areas.
Flexible hours may be implemented by management where such arrangements are
consistent with operational needs and where performance and service to the
public are maintained or improved.
This policy applies to all departments and other portions of the Public
Service listed in Part I of Schedule I of the Public Staff
Relations Act.
There must be a core period.
There must be a lunch period of at least 30 minutes and not more than 90 minutes.
Except as provided for in the Variable work week policy, banking of hours is
not to be permitted.
Collective agreements
Terms and conditions of employment (TBM Compensation volume)
Maximum hours of work (TBM Compensation volume)
The variable work week (TBM Human resources volume, chapter 2-3)
This chapter replaces chapter 1-15 of PMM volume 8.
Enquiries relating to this policy should be referred to the responsible
officer designated in departmental/organizational headquarters, who in turn may
direct questions regarding interpretation to the Human Resources Branch of the
Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat.
Banking of hours (accumulation des heures de travail) -
working more than the required number of hours in a day in order to work fewer
than the required number of hours on some future day.
Core period (plage fixe) - the period during which
all non-shift employees must be on the job, beginning not later than 09:30 and
ending not earlier than 15:30.
Flexible hours (horaire flexible) - a program
whereby management authorizes an employee to vary his/her starting time (between
07:00 and 09:30), finishing time (between 15:30 and 18:00) and lunch period
(between 30 and 90 minutes).
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