Public Holidays 10.1 The following days shall be observed as public holidays: New Year's Day 2 January Waitangi Day Good Friday Easter Monday ANZAC Day Sovereign's Birthday Labour Day Christmas Day Boxing Day Anniversary Day (as observed in the locality concerned)
10.2 The following shall apply to the observance of Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Year’s Day or 2 January, where such a day falls on either a Saturday or a Sunday:
a) Where an employee is required to work that Saturday or Sunday the holiday shall, for that employee, be observed on that Saturday or Sunday and transfer of the observance will not occur. For the purposes of this clause an employee is deemed to have been required to work if they were rostered on, or on-call and actually called in to work. They are not deemed to have been required to work if they were on-call but not called back to work.
b) Where an employee is not required to work that Saturday or Sunday, observance of the holiday shall be transferred to the following Monday and/or Tuesday in accordance with the provisions of Sections 45 (1) (b) and (d) of the Holidays Act 2003.
c) Should a public holiday fall on a weekend, and an employee is required to work on both the public holiday and the week day to which the observance is transferred, the employee will be paid at weekend rates for the time worked on the weekday/transferred holiday. Only one alternative holiday will be granted in respect of each public holiday.
10.3 In order to maintain essential services, the employer may require an employee to work on a public holiday when the public holiday falls on a day which, but for it being a public holiday, would otherwise be a working day for the employee.
10.4 When employees work on a public holiday as provided above they will be paid at double the ordinary hourly rate of pay (T2) for each hour worked and they shall be granted an alternative holiday. Such alternative holiday shall be taken and paid as specified in the Holidays Act 2003.
10.5 An employee who is on call on a public holiday as provided above, but is not called in to work, shall be granted an alternative holiday, except where the public holiday falls on a Saturday or Sunday and its observance is transferred to a Monday or Tuesday which the employee also works. Such alternative holiday shall be taken and paid as specified in the Holidays Act 2003.
10.6 Those employees who work a night shift which straddles a public holiday, shall be paid at public holiday rates for those hours which occur on the public holiday and the applicable rates for the remainder of the shift. One alternative holiday shall apply in respect of each public holiday or part thereof worked.
10.7 Off duty day upon which the employee does not work:
a) Fulltime employees – For fulltime employees and where a public holiday, other than Waitangi Day and ANZAC Day when they fall on either a Saturday or Sunday, falls on the employee’s rostered off duty day, the employee shall be granted an alternative holiday at a later date. In the event of Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Year’s Day or 2 January falling on either a Saturday or Sunday and a full time employee is rostered off duty on both that day and the weekday to which the observance is transferred, the employee shall only receive one alternative holiday in respect of each public holiday.
b) Part-time employees – Where a part-time employee’s days of work are fixed, the employee shall only be entitled to public holiday provisions if the day would otherwise be a working day for that employee. Where a part-time employee’s days are not fixed, the employee shall be entitled to public holiday provisions if they worked on the day of the week that the public holiday falls more than 40% of the time over the last three months. Payment will be relevant daily pay.
10.8 Public holidays falling during leave:
a) Leave on pay When a public holiday falls during a period of annual leave, sick leave on pay or special leave on pay, an employee is entitled to that holiday which is not debited against such leave.
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.
LEAVE AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS 38 Annual Leave
38.1 Employees (other than casuals) will be entitled to 4 weeks paid annual leave per annum, provided that Continuous Shiftworkers shall be entitled to one additional week’s paid annual leave.
38.2 An Employee’s entitlement to paid annual leave accrues progressively during a year of service according to the Employee’s ordinary hours of work, and accumulates from year to year.
38.3 The Employer must maintain a leave accrual system that accurately accrues annual leave progressively throughout the year in accordance with this Agreement.
38.4 Annual Leave is paid at the Ordinary Rate being paid to the Employee immediately prior to the taking of the Annual Leave, plus 17.5% loading.
38.5 Taking of Annual leave
(a) Other than the Easter and Christmas Shutdown outlined in clause 38.7, the Employer and Employee shall seek to reach agreement on the taking of annual leave at a mutually convenient time. The Employer will not otherwise unreasonably refuse an Employee’s request to take annual leave.
(b) The Employer cannot otherwise direct an Employee to take Annual Leave unless the Employer directs an Employee to take excessive accrued Annual Leave in accordance with clauses 38.6 – 38.8 of the Award.
Holidays The following days are observed as holidays by state agencies in accordance with section 110.117, F.S.: • New Year’s Day • Birthday of Xxxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxx, Xx., third Monday in January • Memorial Day • Independence Day • Labor Day • Veterans’ Day, November 11 • Thanksgiving Day • Friday after Thanksgiving • Christmas Day If any of these holidays falls on Saturday, the preceding Friday shall be observed as a holiday. If any of these holidays falls on Sunday, the following Monday shall be observed as a holiday. Customers may have additional holiday(s) observed specifically by the Customer which will be detailed in the Customer’s order.
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
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.
Paid Holidays – Long Weekends (a) When an employee is scheduled to work a weekend where a paid holiday falls on the Monday or the Friday, the Employer shall endeavour to also schedule the employee to work the paid holiday.
(b) When the employee is scheduled off on a weekend where a paid holiday falls on the Monday or the Friday, the Employer shall endeavour to schedule the employee off the paid holiday.
(c) In the event of a scheduling conflict, 12.07 (a) will be the deciding provision.
Religious Holidays When a religious holiday, not observed as a holiday, as provided in Section 2 above, falls on a supervisor's regularly scheduled work day, the supervisor shall be entitled to that day off to observe the religious holiday. Time to observe religious holidays shall be taken without pay except where the supervisor has sufficient accumulated vacation leave or accumulated compensatory time, or, by mutual consent, is able to make the time up. Supervisors shall notify the Appointing Authority at least twenty-eight (28) calendar days prior to the leave.
Overtime Holidays Double time the regular rate for work on the following holiday(s). New Year's Day
Saturdays, Sundays, Holidays If the last or appointed day for the taking of any action or the expiration of any right required or granted herein shall be a Saturday or a Sunday or shall be a legal holiday in the State of New York, then such action may be taken or such right may be exercised on the next succeeding day not a legal holiday.
