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CCQ: Commission de la construction du Québec
Quebec's 4 construction collective agreements, applied automatically to every shift.
Civil engineering and roads, industrial, institutional-commercial, residential: Clic Horaire applies the 2025-2029 agreements' schedules, overtime rates, and premiums from the moment your crews clock in, then prepares your data for the CCQ monthly report and your payroll software.
One platform for all 4 sectors under Act R-20: and for crews that move between them.
4 sector agreements
Sector-specific schedules, overtime, and premiums
CCQ obligations
Monthly report, 13% vacation pay, MÉDIC and pension
The 4 sectors under Act R-20
A dedicated page per collective agreement
Each sector has its own 2025-2029 agreement, schedules, and overtime rates. Explore the rules of your sector.
Civil engineering and roads
Roads, bridges, excavation, major job sites: the agreement with the most extensive schedule flexibility.
- 40 to 50 h/week depending on the work
- Overtime at 200%
- 10/4 schedules on remote job sites
Industrial
Plants, smelters, refineries: the agreement of major industrial job sites and mechanical trades.
- Compressed 4×10 schedule as a management right
- Double and triple shifts
- Double time prevails on overtime
Institutional and commercial
Schools, hospitals, office towers: the industry's largest sector, with 57% of hours worked.
- Up to 10 h/day depending on the trade
- First overtime hour at 150%, then 200%
- Evening premiums up to 8%
Residential
Houses and multi-unit buildings: two distinct regimes, light residential and heavy residential.
- Light: overtime at 150%
- Heavy: overtime at 200%
- Banked-hours reserve up to 80 h
The reality on site
Four agreements, one common core, and rules that diverge sector by sector.
Act R-20 divides Quebec's construction industry into 4 bargaining sectors, each with its own 2025-2029 collective agreement. The standard workweek, overtime, and premiums change from one sector to the next: Clic Horaire applies the right rule based on the job site clocked.
What the agreements impose in the field
Each sector agreement sets its own hour limits, overtime rates, and premiums. Clic Horaire's engine applies them automatically based on the job site's sector.
The CCQ's official texts leave huge grey areas (the well-known "legal gaps") as soon as the variables overlap: a week split between light residential, heavy residential and a non-CCQ site, two trades practised in the same week, an hours reserve to top up. For a mixed week (several trades or sub-sectors), the application proposes by default an allocation based on the predominance of hours worked. Under your management rights, you can manually change that choice to use the hours reserve and the rate of your choosing.
A different standard week per sector
40 h/week as the general rule, but 45 h for excavation and road work, 50 h for asphalt paving in civil engineering, and up to 10 h/day for several IC and residential trades. The engine applies the limit of the sector clocked.
Source: CCQ collective agreementsOvertime specific to each agreement
Double time (200%) in civil engineering and roads and in the industrial sector, first hour at 150% then 200% in institutional-commercial, 150% in light residential with an 80-hour banked-hours reserve: each rate triggers based on the shifts actually clocked.
Source: IC agreement, section XXIEvening, night, and shift premiums
Double or triple shift work, evening premiums of 8 to 10% depending on the trade and sector, regulated time slots: premiums apply automatically based on the hours actually worked.
Mandatory construction holidays
Two weeks in summer, two weeks in winter, job sites closed. The 13% leave indemnity (6% vacation, 5.5% statutory holidays, 1.5% sick leave) is calculated on every pay, with no parallel ledger.
Source: CCQ holidays and vacationsStatutory holidays of the construction calendar
About ten paid statutory holidays recognized by the agreements, including the days around Christmas and New Year's, recognized automatically in schedules and pre-payroll.
What the CCQ requires from employers
The CCQ enforces the agreements: mandatory monthly report, contributions to benefit plans, and verifiable records. Your time-tracking data builds the evidence, continuously.
The regime is governed by the Act respecting labour relations, vocational training and workforce management in the construction industry (Act R-20): the CCQ holds inspection and audit powers on job sites and in employers' books.
CCQ monthly report
Hours worked, wages, and contributions declared to the CCQ every month, even during a labour dispute. Clic Horaire consolidates hours by employee, trade, and job site, ready to declare.
Source: CCQ monthly reportMÉDIC and pension contributions
Hourly contributions to the insurance (MÉDIC Construction) and pension plans change every year of the 2025-2029 agreement. The rates in force apply automatically to every hour clocked.
Source: CCQ employee benefitsAudit trail and verifiable records
Geolocated clock-ins per job site, tamper-proof history of schedule and pre-payroll changes: you demonstrate consistency between the field, your books, and your CCQ declarations.
End to end
From clock-in to the CCQ monthly report, without a single line typed by hand
Four steps, fully automated.
Geolocated job-site clock-in
Your employees clock in from the job site; the timestamp, location, and the project's sector are captured automatically.
Calculation under the sector's agreement
The engine applies the agreement of the job site clocked: standard week, overtime rates, shift premiums, and allowances, as soon as the shift ends.
Consolidation for the CCQ monthly report
Hours, wages, and contributions consolidated by employee, trade, and job site, ready for your monthly declaration to the CCQ.
Pre-payroll export with no rekeying
Qualified data flows directly into your payroll software (Nethris, Employeur D).
Compliance & agreements engine
Zero complex manual configuration
One-click presets for the 4 CCQ agreements
Instantly activate the pre-configured templates of the 2025-2029 agreements: civil engineering and roads, industrial, institutional-commercial, and residential, with their standard weeks, overtime rates, premiums, and allowances ready to use.
Clone and customize per job site
Adapt each agreement to your company's reality: copy a sector preset to add your internal premiums or special arrangements, while keeping the agreement's underlying compliance structure.
Reports
Consolidated data, ready for the CCQ and for your payroll
No more manual month-end compilations: your hours by employee, trade, and job site are ready as soon as the period closes.
Consolidation for the CCQ monthly report
Hours worked, wages, and overtime grouped by employee and job site, ready to carry into your monthly declaration in the CCQ's online services.
Source: CCQ monthly reportReports by sector and by job site
Overview by sector agreement, project, or period: useful for labour-cost tracking and accountability.
Customizable templates
Adapt fields and formats to your internal processes, without depending on our team.
Official sources & CCQ contact
CCQ resources
Useful resources and official contact information for the Commission de la construction du Québec.
Collective agreements 2025-2029
The official texts of the 4 sector agreements on the CCQ website.
Act R-20
The legal framework for labour relations in Quebec's construction industry.
Construction holidays and vacations
Official dates of the mandatory summer and winter vacations and paid statutory holidays.
Wages and vacation pay
The 13% leave indemnity, June and November payments, and the construction pay slip.
Employer monthly report
The monthly report adjustments tied to the 2025-2029 agreements, explained by the CCQ.
The CCQ in brief (statistics)
The industry's official statistical portrait: hours worked, active workers, and employers by sector.
CCQ contact information
Frequently asked questions
Your questions about the CCQ collective agreements
Answers to the most common questions from employers subject to Act R-20.
What are Quebec's 4 construction collective agreements?
Act R-20 defines 4 bargaining sectors, each covered by its own 2025-2029 collective agreement: civil engineering and roads (negotiated by the ACRGTQ), industrial and institutional-commercial (negotiated by the ACQ), and residential (negotiated by the APCHQ), all concluded with the union Alliance grouping the 5 representative union associations. The CCQ enforces them.
Source: CCQ collective agreementsWhat wage increases do the 2025-2029 agreements provide?
The civil engineering and roads, industrial, and institutional-commercial sectors provide 22% over 4 years: 8% in 2025, 5% in 2026, 5% in 2027, and 4% in 2028, plus inflation protection in 2029 (CPI + 0.5%, minimum 2.5%, maximum 4%). In the residential sector, following the February 2026 arbitration ruling: 22% in total for heavy residential and 23.5% for light residential.
Source: ACQ 2025-2029 highlightsHow do the mandatory construction vacations work?
The agreements impose 2 weeks of vacation in summer and 2 weeks in winter, with job sites closed apart from exceptions. Each week, the employer credits a leave indemnity of 13% of gross wages (6% vacation, 5.5% statutory holidays, 1.5% sick leave), which the CCQ pays out to workers twice a year, in late June and late November. Clic Horaire calculates this indemnity automatically in every pay period.
Source: CCQ holidays and vacationsIs overtime the same in all 4 sectors?
No: and it is one of the most common traps in construction pre-payroll. In civil engineering and roads and in the industrial sector, the general rule is double time (200%). In institutional-commercial, the first overtime hour is paid at 150% and subsequent hours at 200%. In residential, heavy is at 200% and light at 150%, with a banked-hours reserve of up to 80 hours. Clic Horaire applies the rule of the sector clocked, automatically.
Source: IC agreement, section XXIHow does Clic Horaire handle an employer active in several sectors?
Coverage is defined at the project or job-site level: a road job site applies the civil engineering and roads agreement, a school job site applies the institutional-commercial agreement. Employees moving between job sites are calculated under the right agreement for each shift, with no manual configuration.
Does Clic Horaire prepare the CCQ monthly report?
Clic Horaire automatically consolidates hours worked, wages, and overtime by employee, trade, and job site, from the shifts actually clocked. Your data is ready to carry into your monthly declaration in the CCQ's online services, and the pre-payroll export feeds your payroll software with no rekeying.
Source: CCQ monthly report
Clic HoraireRunning payroll under the CCQ agreements?
Show us your job sites and trades: our team will demonstrate live how Clic Horaire calculates the 4 sector agreements and prepares your CCQ monthly report.