PART III HOURS OF WORK — Day of rest
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(1) An employer shall grant to every employee a period of rest of not less than 24 consecutive hours during each week of employment.
22(2)
Without limiting anything contained in a statute of the province relating to specific undertakings, the rest period referred to in subsection (1) shall be a Sunday wherever possible.
22(3)
Subsection (1) does not apply in respect of
22(a)
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22(b)
employees or a class of employees employed in prescribed undertakings or a part of them;
22(c)
employees of employers who have applied for and received from the minister a written exemption from subsection (1); or
22(d)
employees engaged in work of an emergency nature that necessitates immediate remedial action, and in case of dispute in relation to employees referred to in paragraph (d), the board shall, subject to the regulations, determine whether or not an employee is an employee to which that paragraph applies.
22(4)
An exemption mentioned in paragraph (3)(c) applies only for the period and subject to those conditions, including conditions relating to accumulation of periods of rest, that the minister may set out in the written exemption.
22(5)
The minister may exempt an employer from the application of subsection (1) and may vary or revoke that exemption.
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