Policy: STATUTORY HOLIDAYSapproved May 24, 2013

Purpose

To acknowledge all legally recognized provincial holidays and ensure that the minimum standards of the

Employee Standards Act are being met including employee compensation.

Policy

Ontario has nine public holidays. EcoSuperior also includes Easter Monday, August Civic Holiday and Remembrance Day as per our municipal and provincial partners for a total of 12 holidays as follows:

New Year’s Day January 1st
Family Day 3rd Monday in February
Good Friday Friday before Easter Sunday
Easter MondayMonday of Easter weekend
Victoria Day Monday before May 25th
Canada Day July 1st / Civic Holiday 1st Monday in August
Labour Day 1st Monday in Sept.
Thanksgiving Day2nd Monday in October
Remembrance DayNovember 11
Christmas Day December 25th
Boxing Day December 26th

RESCHEDULING MIDDLE-OF-THE-WEEK HOLIDAYS

Holidays that fall on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays may be moved to either the Monday or Friday inorder for staff to enjoy a long weekend. This is decided by majority vote at a staff meeting, or in lieu of,by the Executive Director.

WEEKEND STATUTORY HOLIDAYS

If the statutory holiday falls on a weekend day, the Executive Director, as per the Employment Standards

Act, will choose a substitute day.

If a statutory holiday falls during the employee’s scheduled vacation time, the employee is entitled to an extra day either before or after the scheduled vacation.

How Holiday Pay is Calculated for Part-time Employees:

All paid staff are entitled to statutory holiday pay including students, interns, part-time, and full-time.

The amount of statutory holiday pay to which an employee is entitled is all of the regular wages earned by theemployee in the four work weeks before the work week with the public holiday plus all of the vacation paypayable to the employee with respect to the four work weeks before the work week with the publicholiday, divided by 20. The Ministry of Labour offers a Public Holiday Pay Calculator for your

convenience.

Part-time staff may calculate their holiday claim in terms of the hours owed as a percentage of a full-time work week.

i.e. if you work 24 hours a week, that is .64 of a standard full-time work week. (37.5 hours).

.64 x the standard workday of 7.5 hours = 4.8 hours.

Therefore you are entitled to approximately 5 hours for each statutory holiday, and may choose to track the remaining 2.5 hours as time owed on your timesheet instead of having pay adjusted for the pay period.