GENERAL HOLIDAY Clause Samples
The GENERAL HOLIDAY clause defines how holidays recognized by law or custom affect the obligations and timelines under the contract. Typically, it specifies that if a deadline or required action falls on a general holiday, the due date is automatically extended to the next business day. This ensures that parties are not penalized for delays caused by holidays and provides clarity on how contractual timelines are calculated when holidays occur.
GENERAL HOLIDAY. DURING VACATION - When a general holiday falls within an employee's scheduled vacation, he shall receive the pay of a normal shift for the holiday in addition to his vacation pay, or a day off with pay in conjunction with his vacation.
GENERAL HOLIDAY. SATURDAY & SUNDAY When a General Holiday falls on a Saturday or on a Sunday or on an employee’s weekly day off then the next work day shall be observed as the Holiday. If Christmas Day and Boxing Day fall on a Saturday and on a Sunday, respectively, or on an employee’s weekly days off, then the next two (2) work days shall be observed as holidays.
GENERAL HOLIDAY. A) Whenever any holiday specified by State Law falls on Saturday, the preceding Friday shall be the holiday. Employees who work Friday in such case shall be paid according to City Code Section 2.40.080, Subsection E. Whenever any holiday specified by State law falls on Sunday, the following Monday shall be the holiday. Employees who work Monday in such case shall be paid according to City Code Section 2.40.080, Subsection E.
B) Whenever a holiday falls on a Saturday, the holiday shall be observed Saturday or if a holiday falls on Sunday, the holiday shall be observed Sunday for those employees regularly scheduled to work on Saturday or Sunday.
C) Full-time employees whose regularly scheduled Friday and/or Saturday shifts are pre-empted due to no holiday service and/or reduced holiday service shall be compensated at pay code 10 for Friday and pay code 77 for Saturday.
D) If a holiday falls on a normal day off, equivalent hours off will be granted and added to the employee’s in-lieu account.
E) Holiday hours will be offered by seniority as defined in Article 31 - Seniority, to permanent employees, prior to offering the open holiday work to temporary employees, and
F) Time and one-half (1-1 /2) will be paid for the hours worked on a holiday in addition to the employee's rate of pay. At the employee's option, the premium holiday pay shall be received or the employee may be paid at straight time with the equivalent of one and one-half (1-1/2) days. Hours of holiday compensatory time earned for every hour worked, if, provided that on the day of the holiday the employee’s compensatory time does not exceed sixty (60) hours, then all hours of holiday compensatory time may be earned as compensatory time. If the employee’s compensatory time account exceeds sixty (60) hours, the holiday hours worked must be taken as overtime pay. If not specified here the general holiday agreement applies.
G) Employees working a 4 day/10 hour schedule shall earn ten (10) hours credit per holiday. All other provisions of this Article will continue to apply.
GENERAL HOLIDAY. During a week in which a general holiday occurs, the regular hours of work for employees shall be reduced in accordance with the Code. Hourly rated employees shall be scheduled an unpaid half-hour lunch period between the fourth and sixth hour during their shift. When an employee reports for work as scheduled or is called back to work hours in excess of his regular hours, he shall be paid a minimum of four (4) hours pay.
GENERAL HOLIDAY. A part time employee shall not be eligible for General Holiday pay unless he meets the eligibility requirements set out in Article 19.03 (a), and the General Holiday falls not later than two (2) calendar days after his last regularly scheduled shift and not more than two (2) calendar days before his next regularly scheduled shift.
GENERAL HOLIDAY. General holidays will be considered as time worked for the purpose of calculating weekly overtime.
GENERAL HOLIDAY. When the Employer requires an employee to work on a General Holiday as part of regularly scheduled hours of work or as overtime when is not scheduled to work, shall be paid, in addition to the pay that would have been granted had not worked on the General Holiday, time and one- half (1 as defined in the Article Overtime for all hours worked.
GENERAL HOLIDAY. Employees who are required to work on the day of a general holiday shall be paid at overtime rates for all hours worked, in accordance with paragraph C4.06 of Article C-4.
GENERAL HOLIDAY. When a full-time employee does work on the holiday, they shall receive as compensation that week:
GENERAL HOLIDAY. Regular Full-Time, Regular Part-Time and Probationary Employees shall be granted the following general holidays with pay: New Year’s Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, the day proclaimed by the Government of Canada for the celebration of the Queen’s birthday, Canada Day, British Columbia Day, Labour Day, Thanksgiving Day, Remembrance Day, Christmas Day, Boxing Day and any other day proclaimed a civic holiday by the Provincial or Federal Governments, by the Corporation of the District of Burnaby, or by the Board of School Trustees, District No. 41 (Burnaby). Full-Time School Term and Part-Time School Term employees shall be granted general holidays with pay as outlined above, with the exception of British Columbia Day and Labour Day; except that School Term employees required to work in excess of one (1) day in the week preceding Labour Day shall be granted this day as an additional holiday.