Common use of PAID HOLIDAYS AND VACATIONS Clause in Contracts

PAID HOLIDAYS AND VACATIONS. 22.1 Holiday and Holiday Pay – The following shall be paid holidays: New Year’s Day Civic Holiday Good Friday Labour Day Family Day Thanksgiving Day Victoria Day Christmas Day Canada Day Boxing Day 2 Floating Holidays Plus any day proclaimed by the Provincial or Federal Government as a public holiday. When one of the holidays listed above falls on a Saturday or Sunday and another week day is proclaimed a holiday by the Federal or Provincial Government, the Saturday or Sunday shall be deemed to be the holiday for the purposes of this Agreement, except for those employees who regularly work Monday through Friday, in which case the proclaimed day shall be the holiday. Employees who for personal or religious reasons wish to observe a holiday other than the above listed paid holidays may, upon reasonable advance written notice (3 weeks), request that one of the paid holidays, or the floating holiday, be considered as a normal working day and that another day be substituted and that the substituted holiday shall be treated as a paid holiday for the purposes of this Agreement.