Whether an afternoon or night shift is successive or not depends on the pattern of shifts at the workplace.

Workplaces as a whole set the pattern of shifts. An individual employee’s work pattern doesn’t impact whether the shifts are successive.

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An afternoon or night shift is non-successive if the workplace doesn’t run it for:

• at least 5 working days in a row, or
• a full work cycle, when 38 ordinary hours are worked in less than 5 working days.

Example

Frank runs a large auto repair business. The business has an afternoon shift that runs 7 days a week.

Frank employs Seth as a part-time shift supervisor on the afternoon shift. He works on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Seth gets paid the afternoon shift rate. Even though Seth only works on 2 afternoon shifts each week, the shift runs 7 days a week. This means Seth doesn’t work non-successive shifts.

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