Article 29 : statutory and christmas holidays
29.1 The following statutory holidays are paid holiday days:
- New Year's Day
- Family Day
- Good Friday
- Easter Monday
- Victoria Day
- Canada Day
- Civic Holiday
- Labour Day
- Thanksgiving
- Christmas Day
- Boxing Day
The calendar is established ahead of time, based on the University calendar.
If one of the statutory holidays coincides with an employee's weekly day of rest other than Saturday or Sunday, the employee is granted a day of holiday leave at a later date agreed on by the employee and his immediate supervisor.
29.2 Christmas holidays
Employees are granted paid leave according to the normal work schedule for the period beginning on December 22 at 5:00 p.m. (or at the hour determined in the work schedule) and ending on January 3 at 8:45 a.m. (or at the employee's normal time to start work). If January 3 falls on a Saturday or Sunday, employees return to work at 8:45 a.m. on the first working day that follows.
- If December 23 or December 24 falls on a Saturday
or Sunday, floating leave days are granted in the following calendar
year to employees employed by the University on December 31 of that year,
subject to the following terms and conditions:
- December 23: one day of floating leave
- December 24: half a day of floating leave.
29.3 An employee who, at the employer's request, works one of the holidays listed under 29.1 is paid in time, salary or both, as he prefers, at time and a half (150 %) for his normal hourly rate, in addition to his base salary for the day.
29.4 An employee who, at the employer's request made before the start of the Christmas holiday period under 29.2, works one day of the Christmas holiday other than those under 29.1 or December 23 or 24, is compensated in time or salary, at time and a half (150%) of his normal hourly rate, in addition to his base salary for the day. The method of payment is established before the holiday by the dean or the director of the faculty or service, or his delegate, along with the employee.
An employee who, at the employer's request made after the start of the Christmas holiday under 29.2, works one day of the Christmas holiday other than those under 29.1 or December 23 and 24, is compensated in time, salary or both, as he prefers, at time and a half (150 %) of his normal hourly rate, in addition to his base salary for the day.
In both of the above cases, this overtime work is optional.
29.5 An employee who, at the employer's request, works on December 23 and the morning of December 24, receives in addition to his base pay equivalent floating leave in the following calendar year.
29.6 When the University calendar shows the University open on December 23 and/or 24, employees are credited floating leave of one (1) day for December 23 at half (1\2) a day for December 24, as applicable, to be used in the following calendar year.