Alberta Health Services Collective Agreement 2020-2024

Article 22: Named Holidays

Note: Additional Clause 22.08 for EMS in Local Conditions (Page 215)

1.  

   1. Full-time Employees shall be entitled to a day off with pay on or for the following Named Holidays:
      
      New Year’s Day
      Labour Day
      Alberta Family Day
      Thanksgiving Day
      Good Friday 
      Remembrance Day
      Victoria Day 
      Christmas Day
      Canada Day 
      Boxing Day
      August Civic Holiday
      
      and all general holidays proclaimed to be a statutory holiday by any of the following:

      1. the Municipality in which the Site is located;

      2. the Province of Alberta; or

      3. the Government of Canada.

   2. In addition to the foregoing Named Holidays, Full-time Employees who are in the employ of the Employer on April 1st shall be granted an additional holiday as a “Floater Holiday” in that year. The Floater Holiday shall be scheduled at a time mutually agreed upon between the Employer and Employee. If the holiday is not taken by the last day of March in the following year, it shall be paid out.

   3. If the Employer designates a common date for the day off with pay in lieu of a Named Holiday which falls on a Saturday or Sunday, such common date shall be designated by way of notice posted in the Site at least six (6) months prior to the occurrence of the Named Holiday.

2. To qualify for a Named Holiday with pay the Employee must:

   1. work the scheduled shift immediately prior to and immediately following each holiday, except where the Employee is absent due to illness or other reasons acceptable to the Employer;

   2. work on the Named Holiday when scheduled or required to do so.

3.  

   1. 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 (1 1/2X) their Basic Rate of Pay plus:

      1. one (1) day’s 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; and

      4. compensating time off, at their Basic Rate of Pay, for all hours worked in excess of their regularly scheduled shift.

   2. An Employee obliged, in the course of duty to work on Christmas and the August Civic Holiday shall be paid for all hours worked on the Named Holiday at two times (2X) their Basic Rate of Pay plus:

      1. one (1) day’s 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; and

      4. compensating time off, at their Basic Rate of Pay, for all hours worked in excess of their regularly scheduled shift.

4. If a date is not designated pursuant to Article 22.01(c) and subject to Article 22.02, 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’s 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

5. 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’s pay at their Basic Rate of Pay.

6. 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.

7.  

   1. No payment shall be due for a Named Holiday which occurs during:

      1. a layoff; or

      2. all forms of leave during which an Employee is not paid.

   2. No additional payment shall be due for a Named Holiday which occurs during a period when an Employee is receiving Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability or Workers’ Compensation benefits.

   3. Named Holiday banks shall be paid out in the first pay period after March 1 every year at the Basic Rate of Pay.