Floating Holiday All employees except intermittent, emergency, and temporary employees shall also receive one (1) floating holiday each fiscal year of this Agreement. However, seasonal employees shall be eligible for only one (1) floating holiday per season and intermittent employees shall receive one (1) floating holiday each fiscal year of this Agreement if they complete ninety-one (91) working days in that fiscal year. Unless waived by the supervisor, the employee must request the floating holiday at least fourteen (14) calendar days in advance. The Appointing Authority may limit the number of employees that may be absent on any given day subject to the operational needs of the Appointing Authority. Any conflicts for requested holidays shall be resolved on the basis of State Seniority within the employee's work unit. The Appointing Authority shall make a reasonable effort to approve the requested holiday. Floating holidays may not be accumulated. An employee who has not requested the floating holiday by March 1 of each fiscal year or by thirty (30) calendar days prior to the end of an employee's season shall be scheduled to take a floating holiday on a day chosen by the Appointing Authority or be paid for the floating holiday in cash at the option of the Appointing Authority.
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 Articles 8.03 and 8.04 below and Article 6.03: 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 Company.
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 Company, 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 Company’s Weekly Indemnity Benefit Plan, or Workers Compensation, for the full week in which the General Holiday(s) occurs, and requests for time off for vacation purposes as set out in Article 11.16, shall not be entitled to general holiday pay.
8.03 Eligible full-time employees shall suffer no reduction in their pay for a general holiday as set out in 8.01 above.
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 an average of at least thirty-two (32) hours or more per week in the four (4) weeks preceding the week in which a general holiday occurs, shall receive eight (8) hours’ pay at their regular, hourly rate for each holiday.
(b) All part-time employees who have been employed thirty (30) calendar days or more and have worked an average of at least twenty (20) hours a week, but less than thirty-two (32) hours per week in the four
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.
Annual Holidays (a) All employees 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 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 after 4 years of continuous service for the employer all employees shall be entitled to a total of 5 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. This entitlement is inclusive of and not in addition to the minimum annual leave entitlement in that Act.
(c) The parties agree that employees 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 employees are paid other than by direct credit, annual holiday pay shall be paid before the holiday starts.
(d) Each employee 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 employee’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 employee and the employer. The employee 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) Employers will provide written receipt of request for annual leave immediately if practicable.
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.
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.
