CUPE Health Care Workers' Council of Unions

ARTICLE 27 - DESIGNATED HOLIDAYS

27.01 Designated Holidays

The Employer(s) recognizes the following as designated holidays:

New Year's Day Saskatchewan Day
Easter Monday Good Friday
Labour Day Thanksgiving Day
Victoria Day Canada Day
Remembrance Day Christmas Day
Boxing Day

And any other day proclaimed as a designated holiday by the Federal, Provincial or Municipal Government. A civically declared designated holiday in lieu of any of the above named holidays shall not be considered as a designated holiday.

27.02 Saturday or Sunday Holiday

a) Those Employees who are regularly scheduled to work Monday through Friday, and:

i) the designated holiday falls on a Sunday, the following Monday will be a day off-in-lieu;

ii) the designated holiday falls on a Saturday, the previous Friday will be a day off-in-lieu, unless otherwise negotiated between the Employer(s) and the Local of the Union.

b) For Employees whose regular days of rest are not Saturday or Sunday, the holiday will be observed on the day it occurs.

27.03 Christmas or New Years Day Off

a) Insofar as the regular operation of the Employer permits, an Employee shall have either Christmas Day or New Year's Day off alternately, unless the Employee agrees otherwise.

b) To achieve the above, the parties agree that certain shift scheduling provisions contained in this agreement may have to be temporarily waived for specified time periods. The determination of the time period for the waiver of scheduling provisions and the manner of reinstating the shift schedule at the completion of the said time period shall be determined mutually for each department between the Local of the Union and the Employer.

27.04 Pay on a Designated Holiday

Except as otherwise provided in this agreement:

a) A full-time Employee who works on Designated Holidays shall:

i) receive pay at the rate of one and one-half (1 ½) times their regular rate of pay and another day off in conjunction with days off with pay within four (4) weeks before or after the designated holiday occurs; or

ii) if mutually agreed between the Employee and the Employer(s), receive pay at the rate of two and one-half (2 ½) times their regular rate of pay; or

iii) if mutually agreed between the Employee and the Employer(s), receive their regular rate of pay and bank one and one-half (1 ½) times their regular rate of pay as time in lieu, in the bank as per Article 26.09 - Time Off in Lieu of Overtime.

b) A full time Employee who does not work on the above Designated Holiday shall receive pay equal to one (1) day's regular pay.

c) All other than full time Employees who work on the above designated holidays shall receive pay at the rate of one and one-half (1 ½) times their regular rate of pay plus designated holiday pay in accordance with the formula in d) below.

d) All other than full time Employees who do not work on the above designated holidays shall receive designated holiday pay on the following formula:

1944 =

number of paid hours
in the immediately preceding four weeks X normal full time X employee's hourly = designated
149.5 hours/day rate of pay holiday pay

1872 =

number of paid hours
in the immediately preceding four weeks X normal full time X employee's hourly = designated
144 hours/day rate of pay holiday pay

27.05 Scheduling on Designated Holidays

Notwithstanding Article 27.03 - Christmas or New Year's Day Off, when the Employer(s) needs an Employee to work on a designated holiday, the shift shall be offered to the regularly scheduled incumbent unless the Employee requests the day off and the Employer can accommodate such a request.

27.06 Additional Day Off

a) When a Designated Holiday falls on a full time Employee's scheduled day off, the Employee shall have an additional day off with pay within four weeks before or after the Designated Holiday occurs. Such time off will be taken at a mutually agreed time.

b) When a Designated Holiday occurs during a full time Employee's Vacation leave, he/she shall be granted an additional day off as part of his/her vacation period.

27.07 Overtime on a Designated Holiday

a) Overtime on a Regular Day of a Designated Holiday

Subject to Article 26.02, all hours worked in excess of the daily normal full time hours of work on a designated holiday shall be paid at the rate of two (2) times the regular rate of pay for the first four (4) consecutive hours and two and one-half (2 ½) times the regular rate of pay for hours worked in excess of four (4) consecutive hours in that day.

b) Overtime Rate after Midnight on a Designated Holiday

An Employee who works overtime between the hours of 2400 and 0700 on a designated holiday and where such overtime is continuous with the regular shift shall be paid at the rate of two and one-half (2 ½) times the regular rate for all overtime so worked between the hours of 2400 and 0700.

If the evening shift ends before midnight and the Employee is required to work overtime continuous with the evening shift and the overtime ends after midnight then the entire overtime periods shall be paid at two and one-half (2 ½) times the regular rate of pay.

27.08 Overlapping Shifts

In the case of an Employee who works a shift which begins on one (1) day and ends on the next, the credit for the purposes of Article 27.04 - Pay on a Designated Holiday, shall be determined in accordance with Article 26.01 c) Shift Employees.

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CUPE Health Care Workers' Council of Unions
3725E Eastgate Drive
Regina, Sask
S4X 1A5

Phone: 1-306-546-2185
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Email: Gordon Campbell, President