Work on Holidays An employee who is required to work, or works with prior approval, any part of a holiday shall receive holiday compensatory time for up to eight (8) hours, on an hour for hour basis, for the actual non-overtime hours worked in addition to their regular rate of pay. An employee who works overtime on a holiday shall be compensated in accordance with all applicable pay and overtime provisions. An employee must use holiday compensatory time within one (1) year after having accrued that time.
Annual Holidays (a) All workers shall be entitled to four weeks annual leave after each period of 12 months continuous employment with the employer, to be provided and paid in accordance with the Holidays Act 2003. The parties to this collective agreement agree that the taking of a minimum of 4 weeks paid annual leave per 12 months of employment is essential for the rest and recreation needs of all employees. Therefore the employer will not promote or accept requests from employees to pay out any of the 4 week annual leave yearly entitlement except where the employee establishes that exceptional circumstances require them to make such request.
(b) Except that Managers shall be eligible for a minimum of 5 weeks annual leave per year
(c) The parties agree that workers who are paid by direct credit to their bank account shall be paid for their annual holidays in the pay that relates to the period during which the holiday is taken.Where workers are paid other than by direct credit, annual holiday pay shall be paid before the holiday starts.
(d) Each worker is expected to take their annual leave entitlement by the due date and shall not carry over more than two weeks entitlement into the next year without mutual agreement with their employer. (i.e. leave earned in one year is to be taken no later than the end of the following year unless agreement has been reached to carry over the leave as outlined above).
(e) Annual leave may be taken in advance by agreement with the employer and will be available to employees in their first 12 months of service. Such agreement shall not be unreasonably be withheld. The parties agree that any such holiday pay paid in advance may be deducted from a worker’s final pay if she/he leaves the service before the leave has lawfully been accrued.
(f) Study leave and annual leave shall be taken at times mutually agreed between the worker and the employer. The worker is required to give reasonable notice of any application of leave. In the event that the parties are unable to reach agreement as to the timing of annual leave, the employer may require the employee to take annual leave by giving 28 days written notice.
(g) At the beginning of any twelve month period an employee may elect to take a 2% salary reduction in return for an additional weeks leave on full pay at the end of that twelve month period.
(h) Employers will provide written receipt of request for annual leave immediately if practicable.
GENERAL HOLIDAYS 8.01 The following days shall be considered as General Holidays. An employee's pay for a General Holiday shall be as set out in sub-articles 8.03 and 8.04 below: New Year's Day Labour Day Xxxxx Xxxx Day Thanksgiving Day Good Friday Remembrance Day Victoria Day Christmas Day Canada Day Boxing Day Civic Holiday and any other day or portion of a day generally observed by the retail grocery and meat stores and designated as a Holiday by the Employer, or any other day declared by the Provincial Government. The Employer may designate the Good Friday General Holiday to be observed in the following week for those employees who volunteer to do so provided it gives the Union twenty one (21) days advance notice. In situations where there are more volunteers in a department who wish to observe Good Friday in the following week than are needed by the Employer, the senior employee will be given preference subject to the Employer having sufficient qualified employees on duty to efficiently operate the business. For those full-time employees who observe Good Friday in the following week they will be given either the Monday or Saturday as their day off in the week following Good Friday, unless mutually agreed to between the Employer and the employee. Where mutual agreement between the Employer and the Union is reached, this provision may be applied to other General Holiday weeks.
8.02 In order for a full-time or part-time employee to receive pay for a General Holiday, they must:
(1) not have been voluntarily absent from work on the scheduled work day prior to and following such Holiday;
(2) have worked their full, regular designated weekly hours for the week in which Holidays, a Holiday, or portion of a Holiday occur, except for bona-fide illness. Any employee on leave of absence (except employees disentitled for General Holiday pay as set out in the following paragraph) granted by the Employer, at the request of the employee, shall not qualify for a General Holiday with pay if they are absent on both their last scheduled work day prior to, and their first scheduled work day following the General Holiday. Any employee receiving a payment under the Plan 1 Weekly Indemnity Benefit, or Workers Compensation, for the full week in which the General Holiday(s) occurs, shall not be entitled to General Holiday pay.
(a) Eligible full-time employees shall suffer no reduction in their pay for a General Holiday as set out in sub-article 8.01 above.
(b) Full-time employees working on General Holidays, designated in Article 8 of this Agreement, shall be paid the regular, hourly rate they would have received had they not worked, plus an additional double (2x) time said hourly rate for all time required to be on duty. Employees other than full-time, working on General Holidays, designated in Article 8 of this Agreement, shall be paid their regular, hourly rate they would have received had they not worked, plus additional time and one-half (1½) said hourly rate for all the time required to be on duty.
8.04 Eligible part-time employees shall be compensated as follows:
(a) All part-time employees who have been employed thirty (30) calendar days or more and have worked and/or were paid an average of at least thirty-two (32) hours or more per week in the four
Overtime Holidays Double time the regular rate for work on the following holiday(s). New Year's Day
Basic Work Week
a) The basic work week of an employee working full- time shall be forty (40) hours consisting of five eight hour days;
b) Daily hours of work shall be consecutive with the exception of rest and meal periods. No split shifts shall be worked;
c) Employees shall not work longer than their regular, scheduled work day, unless requested to do so by Management; in which event, additional time will be paid at applicable regular or overtime rates. Employees are required to leave the store as soon as it is reasonable to do so.
Payment for Working Overtime on a Holiday Where an employee is required to work authorized overtime in excess of his regularly scheduled hours on a paid holiday, such employee shall receive twice (2x) his regular straight time hourly rate for such authorized overtime.
Normal Workweek The normal workweek shall consist of five (5) days, eight (8) hours per day and forty (40) hours per week. This Article shall not restrict the extension of the regular workday or workweek on an overtime basis when such is necessary to carry on the business of the District.
STATUTORY HOLIDAYS a) All hourly-rated employees who work on New Year’s Day, Good Friday, Victoria Day, Dominion Day, British Columbia Day, Labour Day, Thanksgiving Day, Remembrance Day, Christmas Day and Boxing Day shall be paid rate and one-half for all hours so worked.
b) In the event one of the Statutory Holiday falls on a Sunday, the previous Friday or the following Monday shall be observed as the Holiday. In the event that one of the within named Statutory Holidays fall on Saturday, it shall be observed the preceding Friday or succeeding Monday as agreed between the Company and the Plant Committee.
c) In the event of a Statutory Holiday falling on a Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday, and where the Company and Plant Committee mutually agree, the said holiday may be observed the preceding Monday or following Friday respectively.
d) At the option of the Company, but whenever possible, by mutual agreement with the Plant Committee, either Good Friday or Easter Monday shall become the designated Easter Holiday, and the Company shall notify its employees of the designation at least one (1) week prior to the said Holiday.
e) When a Statutory Holiday falls on a Friday, employees working on a Tuesday to Saturday work week, by mutual agreement between the Company and the Plant Committee may work on the Friday Statutory Holiday at the straight time job rates and substitute Saturday as the Statutory Holiday.
f) In the case of a maintenance employee where one of the Statutory Holidays is observed on his/her rest day, he/she shall have a day off without pay in lieu thereof at a mutually agreeable time.
g) Not withstanding the above, in logging, a Statutory Holiday may be observed on another mutually agreed upon day in a week other than the week in which it occurs. An employee who qualifies for such Statutory Holiday on the day it occurs, and works on that day, will be paid for the Statutory Holiday at straight time rates.
a) All hourly-rated and piece work employees who qualify for the paid holiday under the conditions set out below shall be paid for the holiday at their regular job rate of pay for their regular rate work schedule. The Parties hereto agree that the paid Statutory Holidays shall be as follows: New Year’s Day British Columbia Day Good Friday Labour Day Victoria Day Thanksgiving Day Dominion Day Remembrance Day Christmas Day Boxing Day
b) Piece-work employees shall receive pay for the statutory holidays for which they qualify, based on the daily average earnings for the days actually worked during the previous thirty (30) working days.
c) All hourly-rated employees working on a paid holiday shall receive rate and one-half for hours worked on such day in addition to the holiday pay to which he/she may be entitled.
d) Xxxx and bunkhouse employees who work on a statutory holiday shall receive at the end of their regular work schedule, an additional day off with pay to be added to their leave and vacation allowance accumulated in accordance with Article VII, Section 3.
e) To qualify for statutory holidays, an employee must have been on the Company payroll for the thirty (30) calendar days immediately preceding the statutory holiday and must have worked his/her last regularly scheduled work day before, and his/her first regularly scheduled work day after the holiday, unless his/her absence is due to a compensable injury or illness, which occurred within six (6) months of the holiday, or the employee is on authorized leave of absence in accordance with Section 2 or 3 of Article IX.
f) In the case of illness or injury, the Company shall have the right to request a certificate from a qualified medical practitioner.
g) Notwithstanding any of the foregoing provisions, the employee must have worked one (1) day before and one (1) day after the holiday, both of which must fall within a period of ninety (90) calendar days.
Normal Work Week The normal work week shall be thirty-seven and one-half (37 1/2) hours, and the normal daily hours of work shall be seven and one-half (7 1/2) hours, exclusive of a meal period. The normal work week shall be Monday through Friday and the normal workday shall be scheduled between 7:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m.
PLANT HOLIDAYS 12.01 The Company will recognize the following plant holidays: New Year’s Day Labour Day Xxxxx Xxxx Day Thanksgiving Day Good Friday Victoria Day Remembrance Day Canada Day Christmas Day Civic Holiday Boxing Day National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and any additional holidays as may be declared by the Provincial or Federal Governments. If by reason of an election, the Company is prevented from making deliveries to any area, the Company shall, wherever possible, reschedule work in the week so as to avoid layoffs. If any of the holidays should fall on a Saturday or Sunday, which is an employee’s non-working day, then the Company will designate the work day on which it will be observed. It is understood that either the preceding normal working day or the following normal working day shall be the designated holiday. In order to achieve operational flexibility, the Company may schedule a portion of the workforce to observe the holiday on the Friday and another portion of the workforce to observe the holiday on the Monday.
12.02 Employees will receive eight (8) hours straight time pay for each of such holidays without being required to work on such days provided that:
(a) the employee has not been absent without permission on the last work day scheduled for them immediately prior to the day on which the said holiday is observed, or the first work day scheduled for them immediately after the day on which the said holiday is observed.
(b) In cases where an employee has been on Weekly Indemnity or Workers Compensation and is cleared by their physician to return to work prior to or on the holiday, they will be eligible for pay for that holiday.
(c) If any of the plant holidays above occur during an employee’s absence for which they are on Short Term Disability they shall receive the difference between regular pay and the amount they have received from Short Term Disability for such days during such absence up to fifty-two (52) weeks.
12.03 Any employee who is required to work on any of the aforementioned plant holidays shall be paid at the rate of time and one half in addition to their regular day’s pay of eight (8) hours. Employees will be paid at the rate of double time for all hours worked in excess of eight (8) hours on a plant holiday. Hours worked on an observed or designated Holiday will be paid at time and one half.