Bethany Care Society Collective Agreement 2020-2024

Article 19: Named Holidays

1. Full time Employees shall be eligible to receive a day off with pay on or for the following Named Holidays:
   
   (i) New Year's Day
   (ii) Alberta Family Day
   (iii) Good Friday
   (iv) Victoria Day
   (v) Canada Day
   (vi) August Civic Holiday
   (vii) Labour Day
   (viii) National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
   (ix) Thanksgiving Day
   (x) Remembrance Day
   (xi) Christmas Day
   (xii) Boxing Day
   
   and all general holidays proclaimed to be a Statutory Holiday by any of the following:
   1. the Municipality of Calgary;
   2. the Province of Alberta; or
   3. the Government of Canada.
2. To qualify for a Named Holiday with pay, the Full-time Employee:
   1. must work their scheduled shift immediately prior to and immediately following the holiday, except where the Employee is absent due to illness, or other reasons acceptable to the Employer; and
   2. must work on the holiday when scheduled or required to do so.
3.  
   1. No payment shall be due for a Named Holiday which occurs during:
      1. a lay-off; or
      2. all forms of leave during which an Employee is not paid.
   2. No additional payment shall be due for a Named Holiday that occurs during a period when an Employee is receiving Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability or Workers’ Compensation benefits.
4. An Employee obliged in the course of duty to work on a Named Holiday shall be paid for all hours worked on the Named Holiday at one and one-half times (11/2X) their basic rate of pay plus:
   1. one (1) days pay; or
   2. an alternate day off at a mutually agreed time; or
   3. by mutual agreement, a day added to their next annual vacation; or
   4. failing mutual agreement within thirty (30) calendar days as to the option to be applied, it shall be deemed that payment of one (1) days pay at the basic rate of pay is desired; and
   5. compensating time off, at their basic rate of pay, for all hours worked in excess of seven and three quarter (73/4) hours.
5.  
   1. Time worked shall be deemed to have been worked on the day on which the majority of hours of the shift fall.
   2. For clarification, a Named Holiday or scheduled day off shall commence at the beginning of the night shift, the first shift of the shift day, and end with the evening shift, the last shift of the shift day.
6. When a Named Holiday falls during an Employee’s annual vacation, the Employee shall receive:
   1. by mutual agreement, a day added to the vacation period; or
   2. an alternate day off at a mutually agreed time; or
   3. failing mutual agreement as to the option to be applied, one (1) day pay at their basic rate of pay.
7. The Employer shall rotate, as evenly as possible, amongst Employees in a department or section, as applicable, the requirement to work on a Named Holiday.
8. If a date is not designated pursuant to this Article and subject to Clause 19.02 of this Article, when a Named Holiday falls on a day that would otherwise be an Employee’s regularly scheduled day off, the Employee shall receive:
   1. one (1) day pay; or
   2. an alternate day off at a mutually agreed time; or
   3. by mutual agreement, a day added to their next annual vacation; or
   4. failing mutual agreement within thirty (30) calendar days as to the option to be applied, it shall be deemed that payment of one (1) day pay at the basic rate of pay is desired.
9. Notwithstanding the above language, any remaining alternate days off not taken by December 31st of each year shall be paid out at the Employee’s basis rate of pay.