100% Quebec
SMBs under labour standards
No decree to follow. Just a statute, the CNESST, and employees who want to be paid right.
Restaurants, retail, warehouses, workshops, services: with no parity committee to answer to, the Act respecting labour standards still applies, and you are the one who has to be able to demonstrate it. Clic Horaire applies the standard week, overtime, holidays and indemnities from the punch onward, then prepares your pre-payroll.
- Standard week, overtime beyond
- 40 hStandard week, overtime beyond
- Overtime calculated on its own
- +50%Overtime calculated on its own
- Québec statutory holidays
- 8Québec statutory holidays
- Annual vacation indemnity
- 4% / 6%Annual vacation indemnity
What it costs you today
“We don't have a decree” doesn't mean “we don't have obligations”.
This is the sector where risk is worst estimated: with no parity committee to restate the rules every month, errors accumulate silently, until a complaint, an audit or a badly settled departure.
Overtime worked out in someone's head
Beyond 40 hours, the 50% premium is owed. When hours are approximate, so is the premium: and the error repeats on every pay.
Holidays paid by feel
A statutory holiday indemnity is calculated on the preceding four weeks, not on a normal day. Few SMBs get it right, and nobody notices until a complaint.
A time register that doesn't really exist
Schedules in a spreadsheet, hours in a notebook, changes by text. The day you must prove what an employee worked eight months ago, there's nothing to produce.
Schedules redone three times a week
A last-minute call-in, a replacement, a no-show: with no tool, every change is replayed on the phone and lost before payroll.
An SMB with no decree doesn't have fewer obligations. It simply has fewer people to handle them: which is exactly the problem software should solve.
What we do for you
The law applied without you knowing it by heart.
You don't have to remember which section holds the averaging rule or how a holiday indemnity is computed. You schedule, your employees punch, and the engine applies what the law provides.
Standard week and overtime, applied on their own
Beyond 40 hours in the week, the 50% premium is calculated at the end of the shift. The maths no longer depends on who ran pre-payroll that week.
The eight Québec statutory holidays
The calendar is built in and the indemnity is computed the way the law provides, over the reference period: not by feel, and not on a typical day.
Vacation and paid absences
Annual vacation indemnity of 4% or 6% depending on continuous service, and the first two days of absence for illness or family obligations, tracked employee by employee.
Hour averaging, kept within bounds
If you average hours across several weeks, the engine applies the mean over the agreed period and flags you when an arrangement would exceed what the law allows.
A real register, kept and timestamped
Every hour worked, every schedule change, every correction: recorded with its author and its moment. It's your evidence, and it builds itself.
Schedules employees see on their phone
Publication, change, replacement: the employee is notified and confirms. Fewer Sunday-evening calls, and a record of who accepted what.
Time-off requests land in the right place
Vacation, sick, personal or unpaid leave: the employee files from the app, with their balance shown beside the request. You approve, the absence is written to the schedule and the covered shifts disappear. Swaps between employees follow the same path, with or without your sign-off depending on how you set it.
A typical week
A working week, simplified pre-payroll
A retailer with 18 employees, variable shifts, two managers who also do other things. Here is the week inside the software.
- Mon
The schedule is published
Each employee gets it on their phone and confirms. Nobody can say they didn't know.
- Tue
An employee calls in sick
The replacement happens in the schedule; the first two paid days the law provides are tracked automatically for that employee.
- Thu
A big day, three extra hours
The week goes past 40 hours: the 50% premium applies to the excess hours, with nobody calculating it.
- Fri
A statutory holiday falls in the period
The indemnity is computed over the reference period the law provides, for every employee: including those on variable schedules.
- Payroll
The export goes out
Qualified hours (regular, premium, holidays, absences) are sent to your payroll software. Nobody retypes anything.
No spreadsheet was opened, and if the CNESST asked for the last eight months of records, they'd already be there.
The regulatory side
What the Act respecting labour standards requires of you
These rules apply to almost every Québec business not covered by a decree or an agreement. They don't depend on your size or your sector.
40-hour standard work week
Beyond the standard work week, hours carry a premium of 50% of the employee's usual hourly wage.
Source: CNESST, labour standardsEight paid statutory holidays
The Québec calendar provides eight paid statutory holidays, and the indemnity is computed on the pay weeks preceding the holiday rather than on a normal day.
Source: CNESST, statutory holidaysVacation and paid absences
Annual vacation indemnity rises from 4% to 6% with continuous service, and the first days of absence for illness or family obligations are paid after a certain length of service.
Source: CNESST, leave and absencesRegister and pay statement
The employer must keep a system recording hours and hand out a detailed pay statement. Without a reliable register, it's the employee's version that carries the weight.
See every framework we cover
Decrees, collective agreements, in-house policies: the Agreements & Parity Committees page shows the full hierarchy of rules and how the engine cascades them, from the statute down to your own service agreement.
Open the Agreements pagePayroll integrations
Your field data, handed to your payroll software without error.
Clic Horaire calculates neither taxes nor deductions: it prepares qualified raw data, structured for your payroll software, with no manual recalculation.
Customizable export. Our team helps you configure your Nethris and Employeur D exports.
Frequently asked
What SMBs without a decree ask us first
The questions that come up in almost every demo, with the short answer.
We have no decree and no union. Is Clic Horaire meant for us?
Yes. By default the engine applies the framework of the Act respecting labour standards: standard week, overtime, holidays, vacation indemnity. You can then layer your own policies on top (evening premiums, more generous overtime, time banks) above the statute, never below it.
Our employees have very variable schedules. Does the holiday calculation follow?
Yes, and that's exactly where manual errors are most frequent. The indemnity is computed over the reference period the law provides rather than on a typical day, which gives the right amount even for a part-time employee whose weeks never look alike.
Are we required to keep a record of hours?
The employer must have a reliable recording system and hand out a detailed pay statement. With hours written by hand, the evidence is weak in a disagreement; with a timestamped punch and an audit trail, it's solid on both sides.
Can hours be averaged over more than one week?
The law allows averaging within a specific framework, with the employee's agreement and a maximum duration. The engine applies the mean over the agreed period and flags situations that would fall outside what the law permits.
What if our sector later becomes covered by a decree?
You change framework without changing tool or history. It's the same engine that applies the CPEEP decrees and the CCQ agreements: enabling a decree means loading its rules on top of your existing data.
What does it cost for a small team?
Pricing follows the number of users active in the month: a team of ten doesn't pay for a structure of a hundred. The simulator on the Pricing page gives the exact amount before any conversation.
Your sector
The other sectors already configured
Same engine, same audit trail, same exports into your payroll software: applied to a different regulatory framework.
CPEEP decreePreconfiguredPublic building cleaning
The Montréal and Québec decrees, applied shift by shift
Crews that move between three buildings in a single evening, rates that shift with the work category, a monthly report to file, and an inspector who can show up unannounced. All of it comes out of one thing: the punch.
- Monthly .rma / .edi report generated, not compiled
- Geolocated register per building, ready for inspection
- Decree rates, premiums and sick-leave banks applied automatically
Act R-20 · CCQPreconfiguredConstruction SMBs under the CCQ
Four construction agreements, no month-end compiling
A worker moves from residential to institutional in the same week and their standard work week moves with them. Clic Horaire applies the agreement of the site actually punched, then consolidates your hours for the CCQ monthly report.
- All four 2025-2029 sector agreements preconfigured
- Hours consolidated by worker, trade and job site
- Indemnities, MÉDIC and pension calculated on every hour punched
Does your sector follow another decree? Contact us to share your needs. Only CPEEP and CCQ are ready for now. Tell us about your agreement
Clic HoraireSee it on your own schedules
Thirty minutes, your real shifts, and we show you premiums, holidays and indemnities calculating themselves.