Uniform Collective Agreement – Article RPT6 Statutory Holidays

RPT6.01

An employee shall be entitled to the following statutory holidays each year:

Any other public holiday as proclaimed by the Governor General or Lieutenant Governor.

RPT6.02

(a) Each regular part-time member shall be assigned a statutory holiday bank. A pro-rated percentage of ninety-six (96) hours, calculated on the ratio that the regularly scheduled hours of work bear to full time employment, will be credited to the bank on January 1st in each calendar year.

(b) If a regular part-time member works a regularly scheduled shift on a statutory holiday the regular part-time member shall be credited with one-half (1/2) of the total number of hours worked to the regular part-time member’s statutory holiday bank.

(c) One (1), two (2), or three (3) eight (8) hour, nine (9) hour or ten (10) hour periods, depending on the scheduled days of the employee, shall be utilized for the Christmas/New Year schedule pursuant to the letter of intent, dated May 3, 1979, with respect to Christmas and New Year schedules. Other accumulated hours may be taken on request of the employee and at the discretion of the Detachment Commander, having due regard for the known or anticipated work load.

(d) Hours accumulated under paragraph (a) and (b) of this Section, and remaining in the statutory holiday bank following the application of paragraph (c), shall be paid in the month immediately following the calendar year.

RPT6.03

An employee normally working in an administrative position, resulting in the employee’s absence on a day that a statutory holiday falls, shall be deemed to have taken that holiday, and the employee’s statutory holiday bank shall be reduced by an amount equal to hours normally worked in a shift, and no further compensation shall be granted. Should the employee’s statutory holiday bank be in a deficit at the year end, the appropriate number of hours shall be transferred from the employee’s overtime bank, vacation credits, attendance credits or shall be worked by the employee as compensation.

RPT6.04

Special holidays as proclaimed by the Governor General or Lieutenant Governor as referred to in Section RPT6.01 and which are granted during vacation leave-of-absence shall be computed as part thereof, but no other holidays shall be computed therein.