PAID HOLIDAYS 12.01 All full-time nurses shall receive the following Holidays without loss of pay: New Year`s Day Labour Day Good Friday Thanksgiving Day Easter Monday Remembrance Day Victoria Day Christmas Day (December 25) Canada Day (July 1) Boxing Day (December 26) Civic Holiday Floating Holiday Family Day (3rd Monday in February) The Floating Holiday is to be taken at a time mutually agreed upon by each full-time nurse and the Employer.
(a) In order for a full-time nurse to qualify for a paid holiday and receive payment, such nurse must:
i) work her/his regular day of work preceding and following the holiday, provided that if a full-time employee is absent due to illness, the employee shall be paid for all statutory holidays during time of illness, according to the formula established under the Short Term Disability Plan. No statutory holidays are accumulated when on Short Term Disability. If a statutory holiday occurs when an employee is on authorized leave without pay, she/he shall receive statutory holiday pay provided that she/he is not on leave without pay the working day before or after the statutory holiday;
ii) and report for and perform her/his work on the holiday if she/he agreed to work that day unless excused by the Employer.
(b) A full-time nurse who qualifies for the holiday and does not work shall be paid for one (1) day at her/his normal rate of pay.
(c) A full-time nurse who works on any of the foregoing holidays shall be paid at the rate of time and one-half (1½) her/his applicable hourly rate of pay for all hours worked on such holiday. In addition, she/he will receive a lieu day off with pay.
12.03 A tour that begins or ends during the twenty-four (24) hour period of any of the above holidays, where the majority of hours worked falls within that twenty-four (24) hour period, shall be deemed to be work performed on the holiday for the full period of the tour.
12.04 When a holiday falls within a nurse’s vacation period, it shall be added to the end of her/his vacation or scheduled at a mutually agreeable time. When a holiday falls on a nurse’s regularly scheduled day or days off, it shall be scheduled at a mutually agreeable time.
(a) Lieu days are to be scheduled at a time mutually agreed between the Director of Care and the nurse.
(b) A request for the scheduling of lieu days must be submitted to the Director of Care at least three (3) working days prior to the posting of the schedule.
(c) Lieu days may be accumulated up to five (5) days. Lieu days accumulated in excess of five (5) days must be taken within two (2) pay periods before or two (2) pay periods after the holiday being observed, with mutual agreement between the nurse and her immediate supervisor.
12.06 Insofar as it is possible to do so, the Employer will do its best to equally distribute paid holidays off among its nursing staff.
12.07 If a part-time nurse is required to work on a Public Holiday, as outlined in 12.01, exclusive of the Floating Holiday the nurse shall be paid at one and one-half (1½) times her/his regular rate for all hours worked.
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.
