Uniform Collective Agreement – Article 14 Statutory Holidays

14.01

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.

14.02

(a) Each member shall be credited with ninety-six (96) hours in lieu of the twelve (12) statutory holidays contained in Section 14.01. Such hours shall be credited to statutory holiday bank on January 1st in each calendar year.

(b) If a member works a scheduled shift on a statutory holiday, the employee’s statutory holiday bank shall be credited with one half (1/2) hour for every hour worked that is not overtime.

(c) A separate shift schedule may be used to cover the Christmas/New Year’s holiday period in which members are scheduled to take seven consecutive days off, composed of four (4) rest days and three (3) statutory holidays. Under this separate shift schedule, members will be required to remove the corresponding number of hours from their statutory holiday bank (e.g. twenty-four (24), thirty (30), thirty-six (36)).

Except with the mutual agreement of a member and their supervisor, the separate shift schedule covering this holiday period shall be rotated annually to ensure that members receiving the Christmas Day and Boxing Day period off in one (1) year, will receive the New Year’s Day period off in the subsequent year.

Members of a workplace may decide in a majority decision to remain on their regular shift rotation. When this occurs members will not be required to take days off during the holiday period other than their regular scheduled rest days.

(d) Hours accumulated under paragraphs (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.

(e) Where an employee uses statutory holiday bank hours during the vacation leave period or as required by Article 14.03, the employee shall be deemed to have taken the statutory holiday benefit and the employee’s statutory holiday bank shall be reduced by the corresponding number of hours of the employee’s shift schedule.

(f) Where an employee uses the time in their statutory holiday bank, their bank shall be reduced by the corresponding number of hours of the employee’s shift schedule.

14.03

Employees normally working in an administrative position, resulting in their absence on a day that a statutory holiday falls, shall be deemed to have taken that holiday, and their statutory holiday bank shall be reduced by an amount equal to hours normally worked in a shift, and no further compensation shall be granted.

14.04

Special holidays as proclaimed by the Governor General or Lieutenant Governor as referred to in Section 14.01 and which are granted during vacation leave-of-absence shall be computed as part thereof, but no other holidays shall be computed therein.