Common use of ARTICLE HOLIDAYS Clause in Contracts

ARTICLE HOLIDAYS. Each employee will be paid one (1) day's pay at normal rate of pay for the following holidays, with exception of those employees who are on Long Term Disability who will receive one-third a days' pay. New Year's Day Good Friday Victoria Day Canada Day Civic Holiday Labour Day Thanksgiving Day Christmas Day Boxing Day and the day immediately prior to Christmas Day and New Year's Day and Friday of Employer's Mid-Year Recess, provided the employee has seniority at the date of such holiday and such employee has worked last scheduled working day before the holiday and the next scheduled working day after such holiday. It is further agreed that Easter Sunday will be regarded as a holiday for those persons whose regular or normal schedule includes Easter Sunday. In the event that the mid-year recess one week (5 days) is eliminated or reduced, then the day following New Year's Day will replace the Friday of the Employer's mid-year recess. With the exception of Easter Sunday, holiday pay will be paid to those employees who are excused from work on account of illness and who are within the first days of such illness or who are on approved leave of absence with pay at the time of occurrence of a holiday as herein defined. Holiday pay shall not apply to those on lay-off or on approved Leaves of Absence without pay. Employees who work on any of the holidays referred to in paragraph hereof, shall be paid at two (2) times their regular straight time rate plus their holiday pay mentioned above. In the event that any of the holidays named above fall during an employee's vacation period, the employee shall receive the said holiday pay prescribed in hereof in addition to vacation pay entitlement. If the holiday falls within the employee's vacation period, may elect to receive an additional day's paid vacation in lieu of the additional pay for the holiday, in which event the additional day's vacation shall be a day designated by the Employer, which day shall be at the commencement or at the end of the employee's vacation. The employees shall be paid for each Statutory Holiday during the pay period in which the holiday occurs, or in the pay period for which it is proclaimed to be observed. If a Statutory Holiday occurs in any week prior to completion of an employee's scheduled work week, such day shall be considered as a day worked for the purposes of computing the employee's entitlement for overtime pay as hereinafter provided. It is agreed that in the case of employees who work on a seven-day schedule only, if a Statutory Holiday falls on any day of any week and further, if such holiday falls on such employees' regularly scheduled days off, such employees shall be required to observe such holiday on their next regularly scheduled working day following said holiday. Such day off shall be treated as a Statutory Holiday as in clause hereof.

ARTICLE HOLIDAYS. Each employee For Full time Employees Full time employees will be paid one (1) day's pay at normal rate of pay for entitled to the following holidays, with exception of those employees who are on Long Term Disability who will receive one-third a days' pay. : New Year's Day Good Friday Easter Monday Victoria Day Canada Day Civic Holiday Labour Day Thanksgiving Day Christmas Day Boxing Day Civic Holiday Full-time employees will be credited two (2) floating statutory holidays per year. One (1) on April one (I) on October Employee may take statutory holidays at a mutually agreed time or may accumulate up to a maximum of forty (40) hours in lieu of statutory holiday time. Under special circumstances, the Employer will consider a written request to accumulate more than forty (40) hours. If an employee wishes to observe significant holy days of their faith they may designate in writing by November to the supervisor, up to three alternate statutory holidays, in lieu of Good Friday, andlor Easter Monday andlor Christmas Day, which are observed as significant in the employee's faith. If an employee designates such days, the overtime and other provisions which normally apply to Statutory Holidays will not apply to Good Friday andlor Easter Monday andlor Christmas Day for that employee, but will apply to the days assigned. When any of the above holidays fall on a Saturday or Sunday, and are not proclaimed as being observed on some other day, they shall be observed on the day on which they fall. For non-shift employees the following Monday shall be deemed to be the holiday for the purpose of this agreement. Holiday pay will be computed on the basis of the number of hours the employee would otherwise work had there been no holiday, at his regular hourly rate of pay exclusive of shift premium. In order to qualify for holiday pay, the employee must work his last full scheduled shift immediately prior to Christmas Day preceding and New Year's Day and Friday his first full scheduled shift immediately following the holiday. However, an employee shall not lose his holiday pay if absent on either or both qualifying days because of illness or injury which is verified by a certificate signed by a duly recognized medical doctor or he is absent with the specific written permission of the Employer's Mid-Year Recess, provided he has been at work within three (3) days of the employee has seniority at the date of such holiday and such employee has worked last scheduled working day holiday, whether before the holiday and the next scheduled working day or after such holiday. It is further agreed A shift that Easter Sunday will begins or ends during the twenty-four (24) hour period of the holiday, where more than percent (50%) of hours worked fall within the holiday shall be regarded as a deemed to be work performed on the holiday for those persons whose regular or normal schedule includes Easter Sunday. In the event that the mid-year recess one week (5 days) is eliminated or reduced, then the day following New Year's Day will replace the Friday full period of the Employer's mid-year recessshift. With the exception of Easter Sunday, holiday pay will be paid Where an employee is scheduled to those employees who are excused from work on account of illness and who are within a holiday, the first days of such illness or who are on approved leave of absence with pay at the time of occurrence of a holiday as herein defined. Holiday pay shall not apply to those on lay-off or on approved Leaves of Absence without pay. Employees who work on any of the holidays referred to in paragraph hereof, employee shall be paid at two a rate of time and one half (21%) times the regular hourly rate for all hours worked, and will be given their choice of eight (8) hours in lieu time at a mutually agreeable time or eight (8) hours of pay at their regular straight time rate plus their holiday pay mentioned abovehourly rate. In the event that When any of the above noted holidays named above fall during an employeeon a shift worker's vacation periodscheduled day off, the employee shall receive the said holiday pay prescribed in hereof in addition to vacation pay entitlement. If the holiday falls within the employee's vacation period, may elect to receive an additional day's paid vacation in lieu will be given their choice of the additional pay for the holiday, in which event the additional day's vacation shall be a day designated by the Employer, which day shall be at the commencement or at the end of the employee's vacation. The employees shall be paid for each Statutory Holiday during the pay period in which the holiday occurs, or in the pay period for which it is proclaimed to be observed. If a Statutory Holiday occurs in any week prior to completion of an employee's scheduled work week, such day shall be considered as a day worked for the purposes of computing the employee's entitlement for overtime pay as hereinafter provided. It is agreed that in the case of employees who work on a seven-day schedule only, if a Statutory Holiday falls on any day of any week and further, if such holiday falls on such employees' regularly scheduled days off, such employees shall be required to observe such holiday on their next regularly scheduled working day following said holiday. Such day off shall be treated as a Statutory Holiday as in clause hereof.eight

ARTICLE HOLIDAYS. Each employee will be paid one (1) day's pay at normal rate of pay for the The following holidays, regardless of when they fall, will be granted with exception of those pay to employees who are on Long Term Disability who will receive one-third a days' pay. have completed their probationary period: New Year's ’s Day January Good Friday Easter Monday Victoria Day Canada Day Civic Holiday Labour Day Thanksgiving Day Christmas Day Day Boxing Day Payment for such holidays shall be based on the employee's regular hourly rate multiplied by eight (8) hours. When any of the said holidays falls on other than a regular working day, then the Company may either designate some other day as the day upon which the said holiday will be celebrated, or pay the employees who qualify for the said holiday as though it had fallen on a regular working day, whichever the Company prefers. In order to be entitled to payment for a holiday, an employee must have worked the full scheduled working day immediately preceding the holiday and the full scheduled working day immediately prior following the holiday provided that an employee fails to Christmas Day and New Year's Day and Friday so work due to lay-off or illness, which is verified to the satisfaction of Employer's Mid-Year Recessthe Company, shall not thereby be disqualified from holiday pay, provided the employee has seniority at worked on one or more of the date of such holiday and such employee has worked last scheduled five working day before days prior to the holiday and returns to on any of the next scheduled five working day after such days following the holiday. It is further agreed that Easter Sunday An employee who works on one of the above named public holidays shall receive payment at time and one-half for the hours actually worked in addition to receiving holiday pay. Where one of the above-named public holidays falls during an employee's approved vacation period, the employee shall be allowed an extra day's vacation with pay or an extra day's pay at the option of the Company. Effective August I, part-time employees will be regarded as a paid of earnings on each paycheque of holiday pay. A part-time employee who works on one of the following holidays listed in shall be paid at the rate of time and one-half for those persons whose regular or normal schedule includes Easter Sundayall hours on that day. In the event that the mid-year recess one week (5 days) is eliminated Federal or reducedProvincial Governments declare a holiday during the life of this Agreement, then it shall be recognized. Seniority, as referred to in this Agreement, shall mean length of i continuous service in the employ of the Company and shall be applied on as defined in clause ! An employee will be considered on probation for the first three months and will have no seniority rights during that period. After three months of service, the employee's seniority shall date back to the day following New Year's Day will replace the Friday of the Employer's mid-year recesson which employment began. With the exception of Easter SundayThe dismissal, holiday pay will be paid to those employees who are excused from work on account of illness and who are within the first days of such illness or who are on approved leave of absence with pay at the time of occurrence of a holiday as herein defined. Holiday pay shall not apply to those on lay-off or on approved Leaves failure to recall after lay-off of Absence without paya probationary employee shall not be the subject of a grievance. Employees who work on any Seniority lists will be revised each six months; a copy of the holidays referred list will be posted in the stores and a copy given to in paragraph hereof, shall be paid at two (2) times their regular straight time rate plus their holiday pay mentioned abovethe Union. In If an employee does not make a written challenge to the event that any position of name on the holidays named above fall during an seniority list within the first ten working days from the date the employee's vacation periodname first appears on a seniority list, then the employee shall receive be deemed to have the said holiday pay prescribed proper seniority standing. Lay-offs, recalls from lay-offs, to higher rated jobs in hereof in addition to vacation pay entitlement. If the holiday falls within bargaining unit, permanent and demotions shall be based on seniority, provided that the employee's vacation senior employee is qualified, after a reasonable familiarization period, may elect to receive an additional day's paid vacation in lieu of do the additional pay for the holiday, in which event the additional day's vacation shall be a day designated by the Employer, which day shall be at the commencement or at the end of the employee's vacation. The employees shall be paid for each Statutory Holiday during the pay period in which the holiday occurs, or in the pay period for which it is proclaimed to be observed. If a Statutory Holiday occurs in any week prior to completion of an employee's scheduled work week, such day shall be considered as a day worked for the purposes of computing the employee's entitlement for overtime pay as hereinafter providedavailable. It is agreed that part-time employees will be laid-off before full-time employees. Seniority shall in the case of employees who work on a seven-day schedule following circumstances only, if a Statutory Holiday falls on any day of any week and further, if such holiday falls on such employees' regularly scheduled days off, such employees shall be required to observe such holiday on their next regularly scheduled working day following said holiday. Such day off shall be treated as a Statutory Holiday as in clause hereof.: