Article 21 - Statutory holidays
21.01
The Employer agrees to recognize and observe thirteen (13) paid statutory holidays during the year from July 1 of one year to June 30 of the following year, including those that are or will be instituted by legislation or government order-in-council. The starting point for recognition of these statutory holidays is July 1.
21.02
When employees are required to work on one (1) of these statutory holidays, the Employer gives them compensatory time off during the four (4) weeks preceding or following the statutory holiday unless they bank it, if the local parties have agreed on such a possibility. If the paid compensatory time off is not granted within the period of time stipulated above and the employees have not banked the time off, they are paid the equivalent of one day of work at double time, in addition to their salary for the day of work.
21.03
If employees are on sick leave on the day that a statutory holiday or compensatory time off is indicated on the work schedule, and would be paid out of their bank of sick days, the Employer pays it as a statutory holiday without deducting the day from their bank of sick leave. If, however, the employees are paid disability insurance while on sick leave, the Employer pays the difference between disability insurance benefits and the remuneration stipulated in clause 21.06. These provisions only apply, however, for an absence due to illness that does not exceed twenty-four (24) months, and do not apply in the case of an absence due to a work-related accident. If one or more statutory holidays coincide with an employee’s annual vacation leave, the day or days are paid as if the employee were on a statutory holiday and the annual vacation leave is extended by the number of days of statutory holidays scheduled during this period. If an employee’s weekly days off coincide with the statutory holiday, the Employer gives the employee the time off for the holiday during the four (4) weeks preceding or following the day of the statutory holiday.
21.04
On a statutory holiday or compensatory time off, the number of hours of work in the regular work week in which the employee actually takes the time off is reduced by the number of hours in one (1) regular day of work for the purposes of calculating overtime.
21.05
To benefit from a paid statutory holiday, an employee must be at work on the working day preceding or following the day off, unless: a) the employee’s weekly time off is the day before or the day after the statutory holiday; b) the employee is on annual vacation leave at the time; c) the employee is on paid or unpaid leave authorized by the Employer, or for which there are serious reasons.
21.06
On a statutory holiday or compensatory time off, employees are paid their regular salary as if they were at work.