Article 23 - Annual vacation leave
23.01
The reference period on which annual vacation leave is based runs from May 1 of a given year to April 30 of the following year. The right to annual vacation leave is acquired on May 1 of each year.
23.02 Employees with less than one (1) year of service
An employee with less than one (1) year of service on April 30 is entitled to one and two-thirds (1⅔) days of paid annual vacation leave for each month of service.
An employee with less than one (1) year of service on April 30 may complete up to twenty (20) working days of annual vacation leave (four (4) calendar weeks), at their own expense.
Employees are credited with all the years of service accumulated in the health and social services system for the purposes of calculating their annual vacation leave quantum. For employees with less than one (1) year of service in the new institution on April 30, the annual vacation leave quantum and related remuneration are prorated to the number of months of service in the reference year (May 1 to April 30). These employees may nonetheless complete their number of days of annual vacation leave at their own expense, up to the quantum to which they would have been entitled had they been in the employ of the institution during the entire reference year.
23.03 Employees with one (1) year of service or more
An employee with at least one (1) year of service on April 30 is entitled to twenty (20) working days of annual vacation leave.
An employee with at least fifteen (15) years of service is entitled to the following quantum of annual vacation leave:
- 15 years of service on April 30: 21 working days
- 16 years of service on April 30: 22 working days
- 17 years of service on April 30: 23 working days
- 18 years of service on April 30: 24 working days
- 19 years of service or more on April 30: 25 working days
23.04 Special provision
For the purposes of the preceding clauses in this Article, an employee hired between the first (1st) and fifteenth (15th) day of the month inclusively is deemed to have completed one (1) full month of service.
23.05 Vacation pay allowance
Full-time employees receive remuneration equal to what they would have received if they had been at work as usual.
If, however, the employees have had more than one job status since the start of the reference period for earning this annual vacation leave, the amount that they receive is established as follows:
- Remuneration equal to what they would receive if they were at work for the number of days of annual vacation leave accumulated for full months during which they had full-time status;
- Remuneration established in accordance with clause 38.03 a) or clause 38.04, as the case may be, based on their salary earned during months when they had a job status that was not full-time.
23.06 Vacation pay allowance when an employee leaves
When employees leave the Employer’s service, they are entitled to an allowance for the days of annual vacation leave earned up to the date of departure, in the proportions set out in this Article.
23.07 Special provision
Employees whose vacation pay allowance is not equal to the salary for four (4) weeks’ pay have the right to complete a four (4)-week period of absence without pay in lieu of annual vacation leave.