STATUTORY HOLIDAYS (a) The following days shall be considered holidays for which full time employees shall receive eight (8) hours' pay for each statutory holiday as listed below, at their regular hourly rate of pay. If said employee works on said holiday, he shall be paid as per Article 29.06: New Year’s Day Labour Day ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ Day Thanksgiving Day Good Friday Christmas Day Victoria Day Boxing Day Canada Day (b) Employees working on Remembrance Day will be paid in accordance with the Remembrance Day Act or as amended by the Provincial Government. 29.02 All part-time employees shall receive general holiday pay in an amount equal to one-fifth (1/5) of the average weekly hours that were paid to the employee during the four (4) complete calendar weeks immediately prior to the week in which the general holiday occurs. 29.03 In order for an employee to qualify for a statutory holiday they must not have been voluntarily absent from their scheduled workday the day prior to and/or following such holiday. Vacation, leave of absence authorized by the Company and sick leave shall not disqualify an employee from receiving their general holidays as noted above. 29.04 If a statutory holiday occurs during an employee's vacation or scheduled day off, they shall have the opportunity to take an extra day's vacation with pay or an extra day's pay. In the event the employee chooses to take an extra day off with pay, the day off selected shall be subject to Company approval. 29.05 In the event that a security guard works in a location where a statutory holiday occurs which is not recognized in this agreement, and the client closes its business for that day, and the security guard, had that not been the case, would have normally worked on that day, said security guard shall be offered work in another location for the equivalent time that the employee would have worked if such work is available. 29.06 An employee who is required to and does work on a statutory holiday shall be paid at one and one-half (1½) times their rate of pay (plus one and one-half (1½) times the overtime rate if applicable) for all hours worked on a statutory holiday and in addition, shall be paid their regular pay for the statutory holiday if they fall in accordance with the requirements specified in 29.03 above. 29.07 Senior full-time employees will be given an opportunity not to be scheduled to work both Christmas and New Year’s Day, except in the event that there are no employees available or overtime or training costs are to be incurred by the Company to accommodate the change. Requests shall be submitted forty-five (45) days in advance and the Company shall respond within ten (10) days of the request.
Public Holiday Work (a) For Employees other than Shiftworkers, double time and a half must be paid for any Public Holiday Work with a minimum payment of four hours. (b) For Shiftworkers, double time and a half (inclusive of their shift loading) must be paid for any Public Holiday Work with a minimum payment of four hours.
Holidays Falling on Saturday or Sunday (a) For an employee whose workweek is from Monday to Friday and when any of the above-noted holidays fall on a Saturday and is not proclaimed as observed on some other day, the following Monday shall be deemed to be the holiday for the purpose of this agreement; and when a holiday falls on a Sunday and it is not proclaimed as being observed on some other day, the following Monday (or Tuesday, where the preceding section already applies to the Monday), shall be deemed to be the holiday for the purpose of this agreement. (b) Where there is a work dependency between employees covered by this agreement and private sector employees, the parties may, by mutual agreement, amend (a) above.
Holiday Falling on Saturday or Sunday For an employee whose normal workweek is from Monday to Friday and when any of the above-noted holidays falls on a Saturday and is not proclaimed as being observed on another day, the following Monday will be deemed to be the holiday. When a holiday falls on a Sunday and it is not proclaimed as being observed on another day, the following Monday (or Tuesday, where the preceding section already applies), will be deemed to be the holiday for the purpose of this agreement.
Saturday Work A day worker required to work overtime on a Saturday shall be afforded at least four hours work or paid for four hours at the rate of time and one half for the first three hours and double time thereafter, except where the overtime is continuous with overtime commenced on the previous day.