Yes. Your employer can send you home early if there isn’t enough work. If you worked for less than three hours, your employer must pay you at least minimum wage for three of hours of work (unless an exception applies – see below). A meal break of one hour or less is not part of the 3 consecutive hours of work. For example, if you work from 6pm to 9:30pm and take a one hour dinner break from 7pm to 8pm, your employer has to pay you for 3 hours even though you only worked for 2.5 hours. If you worked for three hours or more, your employer must pay you for the hours you worked. In some jobs, if you work less than 2 hours, your employer only has to pay for 2 hours of work. Those jobs are: part-time employees in recreational or athletic programs run by a city, town, Métis settlement or a not-for-profit community service organization school bus drivers students 13, 14, or 15 years of age employed when the student is required to attend school See more FAQs about pay. Last Reviewed: November 2020