Canadian Blood Services (Transport Unit) Collective Agreement 2017-2021

Article 15: Named Holidays

1.  
   1. Regular full-time and temporary full-time Employees shall be entitled to a day off with pay on or for the following named holidays:
      
         New Year’s Day
         Family Day
         Good Friday
         Victoria Day
         Canada Day
         August Civic Holiday
         Labour Day 
         Thanksgiving Day
         Remembrance Day
         Christmas Day
         Boxing Day
      
      and one (1) day shall be added to either Christmas Eve or New Year’s Eve as scheduled by the Employer;
      
      and any other day declared by either the Edmonton Civic, Provincial or Federal Government.
       
   2. In addition to the above named holidays, regular full-time Employees who are employed on or before September 1 in any calendar year shall be granted one (1) additional holiday, as a Float Holiday, which shall be requested in writing by the Employee.  The Float Holiday shall be scheduled at a time mutually agreed upon by the Employer and the Employee.  Whenever possible, the Float Holiday must be taken prior to utilizing any annual vacation leave.  If the holiday is not scheduled or taken prior to January 1 of the following year, it will be either scheduled or paid out by the Employer no later than March 31.  Employees whose employment terminates and have not taken the Float Holiday are not entitled to payment in lieu of such Float Holiday.
2. To qualify for a named holiday with pay, the Employee must:
   1. work their scheduled shift immediately prior to and immediately following the holiday except where the Employee is absent due to illness or other reason acceptable to the Employer; and
   2. work on the holiday when scheduled or required to do so, except where the Employee is absent due to illness or other reasons acceptable to the Employer.
3. 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 two times (2X) their regular hourly rate plus:
   1. one (1) regular day’s pay; or
   2. one (1) day off with pay at straight time rate, to be scheduled at a mutually agreed time within thirty (30) days either before or after the holiday; or
   3. by mutual agreement, one (1) day added to their next annual vacation; and
   4. compensating time off at straight time for all hours worked in excess of seven and one-half (7 1/2) hours on the named holiday.
   5. Any assignment of work to be performed on Christmas Day or Boxing Day, and/or New Year’s Day shall be done on a voluntary basis.  In the case of more volunteers than work available, the work shall be assigned on the basis of seniority, with the most senior volunteer able to work no more than one (1) of the Named Holidays where less senior volunteers are available.  A sign-up sheet soliciting for volunteers to work the aforementioned paid holidays shall be posted by November 15th of each year.  If there are no volunteers, then the work shall be assigned to the most junior Employee.
4. When a named holiday falls on a day that would otherwise be an Employee’s regular scheduled day off, the Employee shall receive an alternate day off as outlined in Article 15.03 (b).
5. When a named holiday falls during an Employee’s annual vacation, such holiday(s) may, by mutual agreement, be added to the vacation period, or if this is not possible, the Employee shall be granted another day or other days off in lieu thereof.  Whenever possible, the stated preference of the Employee shall be taken into account.
6. Where a regular full time or temporary full time Employee is scheduled and works Christmas Eve or New Years Eve and such day is designated by the Employer as the Named Holiday in that year, it is agreed that hours worked on such day will be eligible for payments as outlined in 15.03.
7. For the purposes of the day designated as the Named Holiday corresponding to Christmas Eve or New Years Eve, such days shall be alternated from one year to the next.