Designated Holidays A part-time employee shall not be paid for the designated holidays but shall, instead be paid four decimal two five percent (4.25%) for all straight-time hours worked.
Compensation for Work on a Holiday (a) Where an Employee is regularly scheduled to work, in accordance with Article 14, and their regularly scheduled day of work falls on a paid holiday, as defined in Article 18.01, they shall receive compensation equal to two and one-half (2 ½) times their regular rate of pay as follows:
(i) compensation at one and one-half (1½) times their regular rate of pay, including the holiday pay, for the hours worked on the holiday; and
(ii) time off with pay in lieu of the holiday on an hour-for-hour basis at a mutually acceptable time in accordance with Article 18.11.
(b) Where time off with pay in lieu of the holiday has not been granted in accordance with Article 18.05(a)(ii), compensation shall be granted at the Employee’s regular rate of pay for those hours worked on the holiday.
Work on a Holiday Employees required to work on days recognized as holidays which fall within their regular work schedules shall be entitled, in addition to their regular monthly salary, to compensatory time off, or to be paid in cash as provided in Articles 32.1-32.5 (Overtime). Compensatory time off or cash paid for all time worked shall be at the rate of time and one-half (1 ½). The rate at which an employee shall be paid for working on a holiday shall not exceed the rate of time and one-half (1 ½) his/her straight time rate of pay.
Named Holidays 22.01 (a) Regular Full-time Employees shall be entitled to receive a day off with pay on or for the following Named Holidays: New Year's Day Labour Day Alberta Family Day Thanksgiving Day Good Friday Remembrance Day Victoria Day Christmas Day Canada Day Boxing Day August Civic Holiday and any day proclaimed to be a holiday by:
(i) The Government of the Province of Alberta; or
(ii) The Government of Canada. Further, any day proclaimed by the government of the municipality to be a civic holiday for general observance by the municipal community in which the site is located.
Annual Holidays (a) All workers 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 collective 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 Managers shall be eligible for a minimum of 5 weeks annual leave per year
(c) The parties agree that workers 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 workers are paid other than by direct credit, annual holiday pay shall be paid before the holiday starts.
(d) Each worker 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 worker’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 worker and the employer. The worker 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) At the beginning of any twelve month period an employee may elect to take a 2% salary reduction in return for an additional weeks leave on full pay at the end of that twelve month period.
(h) Employers will provide written receipt of request for annual leave immediately if practicable.
Worked Holidays Employees who are required to work on the above described holidays shall receive the pay due them for the holiday, plus twice their base rate for all hours worked on such holidays.
Payment for Working on a Holiday (The following clause is applicable to full-time employees only)
Working on a Holiday An employee who is required to work on a holiday shall be paid at the rate of straight time plus time and one-half (1 1/2).
Work on Holidays An employee who is required to work, or works with prior approval, any part of a holiday shall receive holiday compensatory time for up to eight (8) hours, on an hour for hour basis, for the actual non-overtime hours worked in addition to their regular rate of pay. An employee who works overtime on a holiday shall be compensated in accordance with all applicable pay and overtime provisions. An employee must use holiday compensatory time within one (1) year after having accrued that time.
DESIGNATED PAID HOLIDAYS 16.01 Subject to Clause 16.02, the following shall be designated paid holidays for employees:
(a) Good Friday
(b) Easter Monday
(c) The day fixed by proclamation of the Governor-in-Council for celebration of the Sovereign’s Birthday
(d) Canada Day
(e) Nunavut Day
(f) Labour Day
(g) The day fixed by Order of the Government of Nunavut as a general day of Thanksgiving
(h) Remembrance Day
(i) Christmas Day
(j) Boxing Day
(k) New Year’s Day
(l) One additional day in each year that, in the opinion of the Employer, is recognized to be a territorial or civic holiday in the area in which the employee is employed or in any area where, in the opinion of the Employer, no such day is recognized as a territorial or civic holiday, the first Monday in August; and
(m) Any day proclaimed by an Act of Parliament as a national holiday other than a designated paid holiday mentioned above shall be proclaimed as a designated paid holiday.
(n) Where the employer agrees to provide the majority of employees in any community with time off in support of a community function, those employees who are unable to take advantage of the time off because of operational requirements will be paid at the overtime rate for hours worked during that period.
(o) In communities where Hamlet Day is designated a municipal holiday, the Employer agrees to allow employees one half (½) day (4 hours) to participate in events.
16.02 Article 16.01 does not apply to an employee who is absent without pay on both the working day immediately preceding and the working day following the Designated Paid Holiday, except with the approval of the Employer or where leave has been granted under Article 13
16.03 No employee is entitled to be paid for a designated paid holiday on which he/she does not work when he/she is not entitled to wages for at least fifteen (15) days during the thirty (30) calendar days preceding the holiday.
16.04 When a day designated as a paid holiday under Clause 16.01 coincides with an employee’s day of rest, the holiday shall be moved to the employee’s first scheduled working day following the day of rest.
16.05 When a day designated as a paid holiday for an employee is moved to another day under the provisions of Clause 16.04:
(a) work performed by an employee on the day from which the holiday was moved shall be considered as work performed on a day of rest; and
(b) work performed by an employee on the day to which the holiday was moved shall be considered as work performed on a holiday.