Vacations and General Holidays. a) Employees shall receive 6% of their gross earnings to cover annual vacation and 4% of their gross earnings to cover general holiday pay, to be paid each payday. b) Employees shall be entitled to time off without pay on the following holidays: New Year’s Day, Family Day (third Monday in February), Good Friday, Easter Monday (except when schools are in session, in which case Easter Monday will be replaced by the Monday of Spring Break), Victoria Day, Canada Day, Civic Holiday (first Monday in August), Labour Day, Thanksgiving Day, Remembrance Day, Christmas Day, and Boxing Day. Payment on general holidays shall be in accordance with 2 (a). c) The general holidays for which overtime rates are paid shall be those defined in 3(b). d) Employees who work on the day of Stampede Parade, Christmas Eve, or New Year’s Eve, shall receive a half day off (4.5 hours under the nine day fortnight schedule) with pay or such lesser time as scheduled to work provided that the day is a regularly scheduled work day.
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