If an employee works less than 3 consecutive hours, the employer must pay the employee for 3 hours of work at a rate equal to at least the minimum wage. 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. In some types of jobs, if an employee works less than 2 hours, the employer only has to pay for 2 hours. 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 Last Reviewed: August 2019