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Qualified Employees can Be Full-time
Most workers who certify are entitled to take nowadays off work and be paid public holiday pay.
Alternatively, the employee can agree electronically or in writing to deal with the holiday and be paid:
– public vacation pay plus premium spend for all hours dealt with the general public vacation and not get another day of rest (called a “substitute” vacation);.
or.
– be paid their regular earnings for all hours dealt with the public vacation and get another alternative holiday for which they need to be paid public vacation pay.
Some workers might be needed to work on a public vacation. (See “Special rules for certain industries” later on in this Chapter.) While most employees are qualified for the general public holiday privilege, some workers work in tasks that are not covered by the public vacation arrangements of the Employment Standards Act (ESA). To figure out whether a job is covered, or if unique guidelines apply, please describe the Guide to employment requirements special rules and exemptions.
Use the Employment Standards Self-Service Tool to check compliance with public holidays and other employment standards entitlements.
See “Public holiday pay” later on in this chapter.
Regular wages does not consist of any overtime pay, getaway pay, public vacation pay, premium pay, domestic or sexual violence leave pay, termination pay, discontinuance wage or termination of project pay payable to a staff member.
While some employers offer their staff members a holiday on Easter Sunday, Easter Monday, the first Monday in August, or Remembrance Day, the company is not required to do so under the ESA.
Performing both covered and exempt work
Some employees perform more than one sort of work for a company. Some of this work may be covered by the public holiday part of the ESA, while another type of work might be exempt from public vacation protection.
If a staff member performs both type of work, exempt and covered, they are qualified for the public vacation entitlement with respect to a specific public vacation if at least half of the work performed in the work week of the general public vacation is work that is covered.
Rupert works for a taxi business as both a taxi cab driver (work that is exempt from public holiday protection) and a dispatcher (work that is covered by the public holiday part of the ESA). In the work week that Canada Day fell, at least half of Rupert’s work was as a dispatcher. Because this work is covered by the public holiday part of the ESA, he is qualified for the public vacation entitlement for Canada Day.
Receiving public holiday privileges
Generally, workers qualify for the general public vacation entitlement unless they:
– fail without reasonable cause to work all of their last regularly arranged day of work before the public holiday or all of their first regularly scheduled day of work after the general public vacation (this is called the “Last and First Rule”);.
or.
– fail without affordable cause to work their entire shift on the general public vacation if they consented to or were required to work that day.
Note: Most workers who fail to get approved for the public vacation privilege are still entitled to be paid superior pay for every hour they deal with the vacation.
Qualified staff members can be complete time, part time, permanent or on term agreement. It does not matter how just recently they were hired, or the number of days they worked before the general public holiday.
The “last and very first rule”
The “last routinely arranged day of work before the general public vacation” and the “first frequently set up day of work after the general public holiday” do not need to be the days right previously and right after the holiday.
For example, an employee may not be set up to work the day right before or after the holiday. As long as the staff member works all of their last routinely scheduled shift before the holiday and all of the first one after it, or has reasonable cause for not working either of those days, they satisfy this qualifying criterion.
Reasonable cause
A worker is normally considered to have “sensible cause” for missing work when something beyond their control avoids the staff member from working. Employees are accountable for revealing that they had affordable cause for keeping away from work. If they can do so, they still get approved for public vacation entitlements.
How the last and very first guideline works
Rosie’s routine work week ranges from Monday to Thursday. A public holiday falls on a Monday, and Rosie’s workplace shuts down for that day. If Rosie works the whole shift on the Thursday before the vacation and the Tuesday after the holiday, or has affordable cause for failing to work either of those days, she qualifies to be paid for the vacation.
Example: When an employee takes a day off
A public holiday falls on a Monday, and Lev’s work environment closes down for that day. Lev regularly works Monday to Thursday. Lev has actually asked his employer for consent to remove the Thursday before the public vacation because he has a personal appointment. His company concurs. Lev’s last regularly scheduled work day before the vacation is now considered to be on the Wednesday.
If Lev works his entire Wednesday shift before the holiday and his entire Tuesday shift after the holiday, or has sensible cause for not working either of those days, he receives the paid public vacation.
Example: When a worker leaves early
A public vacation falls on a Friday, and Doris’s work environment is closed for the holiday. Doris generally works from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday to Friday. However, she desires to leave at 3 p.m. on the Thursday before the general public holiday. The employer agrees. Doris’s frequently set up shift on the Thursday before the public vacation is now thought about to be from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
. If Doris works from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the Thursday and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the following Monday, or has affordable cause for stopping working to do so, she is entitled to the paid public holiday.
Example: When a staff member is on getaway
Canada Day falls on July 1. George is on trip from June 25 to July 9. If George works all of his last frequently set up shift before his getaway and very first routinely set up shift after his vacation – on June 24 and July 10 – or has reasonable cause for stopping working to do so, he will get approved for the paid public vacation.
Example: When an employee is on a leave or layoff
Lydia is on pregnancy leave when the Canada Day vacation happens. If Lydia works her last routinely scheduled day of work before her leave, and her first regularly set up day of work after her leave, or has reasonable cause for stopping working to do so, she will be entitled to the paid public holiday.
Example: When there is no reasonable cause
A public holiday falls on a Monday, and Ellen’s work environment is closed for the vacation. Ellen does not work on her last scheduled day before the holiday, and she does not have reasonable cause for missing that day. She receives no spend for the holiday.
Public vacation pay
The amount of public vacation pay to which a worker is entitled is all of the routine incomes earned by the employee in the four work weeks before the work week with the general public vacation plus all of the holiday pay payable to the employee with respect to the 4 work weeks before the work week with the general public holiday, divided by 20.
When to consist of holiday pay in the computation of public holiday pay
The quantity of trip pay payable to consist of in the computation of public holiday pay depends upon whether the employee is on vacation at any time during the 4 work weeks prior to the general public vacation, and the manner in which the worker is to be paid vacation pay. Please describe the Vacation chapter for details on the different methods holiday pay can be paid.
Vacation pay payable
If the employee is to be paid their trip pay before they take a holiday or on or before the pay day for the duration in which the vacation falls, trip pay will be consisted of in the estimation of public vacation pay if the worker was on vacation throughout that four work week duration. If the employee was not on vacation during that duration, no vacation pay will be consisted of in the computation.
If the staff member is to be paid trip pay with every pay cheque the amount of getaway pay to include in the calculation of public vacation pay will be at least 4 percent of all of the staff member’s salaries made during the 4 work week duration. (Note that if a worker makes a higher portion of getaway pay, such as 6 percent of earnings, then the “holiday pay payable” will be based upon that greater percentage.)
If a staff member is to receive their vacation pay in a swelling amount on a particular date or dates, getaway pay will be consisted of in the estimation of public holiday pay only if that date or dates falls during the pertinent 4 work week duration.
Calculating the four work week period before the work week with a public holiday
The 4 weeks before the general public holiday is based on the company’s work week and is not necessarily a calendar week.
Example:
Christmas Day falls on a Tuesday. Suppose that a company’s work week runs from Thursday to Wednesday. In this case, the 4 work weeks utilized to determine public holiday pay are those four weeks counting in reverse from the first Wednesday (the last day of the employer’s work week) before the work week in which the public holiday falls.
– Week 1: Thursday, November 22 – Wednesday, November 28
– Week 2: Thursday, November 29 – Wednesday, December 5
– Week 3: Thursday, December 6 – Wednesday, December 12
– Week 4: Thursday, December 13 – Wednesday, December 19
Public holiday: Tuesday, December 25
In this example, the regular incomes earned by the employee and the holiday pay payable to the staff member with regard to the four work weeks from November 22 to December 19 are utilized in the calculation of public holiday pay.
Calculating public vacation pay
Iryna works five days a week and makes $120 a day. She worked her last frequently set up work day before the general public vacation and her first regularly scheduled day after the holiday. She receives her vacation pay when her vacation is taken. She was not on getaway throughout the four work weeks leading up to the general public holiday.
1. Calculate Iryna’s overall regular salaries made:
$ 120 each day X 5 days = $600 each week
$ 600 per week X 4 work weeks = $2,400.
Iryna made $2,400 of routine salaries in the four work weeks before the public vacation.
2. Calculate the amount of getaway pay payable with regard to the 4 work week duration:.
Iryna receives her vacation pay when she takes her getaway. Because she was not on vacation during the four work week period, the amount of getaway pay payable with regard to the 4 work weeks before the general public vacation = $0.
3. Total her total wages earned and employment holiday pay payable and divide the amount by 20:.
$ 2,400 + $0 = $2,400.
$ 2,400 ÷ 20 = $120.
Result: Iryna is entitled to $120 public holiday pay.
Example: When holiday time is included
Brock works 5 days a week and earns $160 a day. He was on vacation for two of the 4 weeks before the public vacation. He gets vacation pay before he takes his getaway. He is paid $1,600 holiday pay for his two weeks of getaway. Brock worked his last routinely scheduled work day before the public vacation and his very first regularly scheduled work day after the holiday.
1. Calculate Brock’s total regular salaries earned:.
Brock worked 10 days.
$ 160 per day X 10 days = $1,600.
2. Calculate the quantity of holiday pay:.
Brock was on holiday for two of the 4 work weeks prior to the work week with the general public vacation, and is paid trip pay before he takes his getaway. The quantity of vacation pay payable with respect to the four work weeks prior to the work week with the public vacation = $1,600.
3. Combine his total salaries earned and getaway payable and divide the amount by 20:.
$ 1,600 + $1,600 = $3,200.
$ 3,200 ÷ 20 = $160.
Result: Brock is entitled to $160 public holiday pay.
Example: When a worker works part-time and each pay cheque consists of getaway pay
Tegan works three days a week and makes $120 a day. She worked her last regularly arranged work day before the public holiday and her first frequently scheduled day after the vacation. She and her employer have actually concurred in writing that she will receive four percent trip pay on each paycheque.
1. Calculate Tegan’s routine earnings earned:.
$ 120 per day X 3 days = $360 per week.
$ 360 weekly X 4 weeks = $1,440.
2. Calculate her vacation pay payable:.
$ 4.80 per day (4% of $120) X 3 days = $14.40 per week.
$ 14.40 weekly X 4 weeks = $57.60.
3. Total her routine earnings made and vacation pay payable and divide the sum by 20:.
$ 1,440 + $57.60 = $1,497.60.
$ 1,497.60 ÷ 20 = $74.88.
Result: Tegan is entitled to $74.88 public holiday pay.
Example: When there are no set hours and each pay cheque includes pay
Bertie does not work a set number of hours each day or days weekly. Her pay varies from week to week, according to the time she has worked. She and her company have agreed in writing that she will receive four per cent vacation pay on each pay cheque.
1. Bertie’s routine earnings made during the 4 work weeks before the vacation are $1,500.
2. Calculate her trip pay payable:.
$ 1,500 X 4% = $60.
3. Add together her routine earnings made and holiday pay payable and divide the amount by 20:.
$ 1,500 + $60 = $1,560.
$ 1,560 ÷ 20 = $78.
Result: Bertie is entitled to $78 public holiday pay.
Example: employment When a staff member is on a leave
Zoe typically works five days a week, making $120 a day. She receives vacation pay before she goes on holiday. On June 10, she went on a 17-week pregnancy leave, followed by a 35-week adult leave.
During her leaves, she was not paid wages or trip pay. She got maternity and parental gain from the federal Employment Insurance program, however these benefits are ruled out “salaries.”
Zoe is entitled to get public vacation pay for the general public holidays that fall during her leave as long as she works her last frequently scheduled day before her leave and her first regularly set up day after her leave, or has sensible cause for stopping working to do so.
Zoe went on leave on June 10 and just worked seven days during the four work weeks before the Canada Day public holiday. Her public vacation pay for Canada Day is:
– Regular earnings made: $120 a day X 7 days = $840.
– Vacation pay payable: $0 (she was not on holiday during the 4 work week duration).
– Public vacation pay: ($ 840 + $0) ÷ 20 = $42 public holiday pay.
Her public vacation spend for the remainder of the public vacations that fall throughout her leave will be $0. This is since she will not have actually earned any incomes or holiday pay on any of the days throughout the four work weeks before each of those vacations.
Example: When a worker is on a layoff
Eugene generally works five days a week, making $100 a day. He was put on momentary layoff on November 15. During his layoff, Eugene was not paid wages or trip pay. He received work insurance coverage advantages during this time, but these advantages are not thought about “wages.”
Eugene was recalled to work on December 27. He is entitled to be paid public vacation spend for Christmas Day and Boxing Day as long as he works his last routinely arranged day before the layoff and his first regularly arranged day after the layoff, or has reasonable cause for stopping working to do so.
However, since Eugene did not earn any salaries or getaway pay in the four work weeks before those 2 public vacations, the amount of public holiday pay he is entitled to will be $0.
Premium pay
Premium pay is 1 1/2 times a staff member’s routine rate of pay. If an employee is entitled to get premium pay for deal with a public holiday, they must be paid 1 1/2 times their routine rate of pay for each hour worked.
For instance, Nathan’s routine rate of pay is $20 an hour. This indicates that his premium pay will be $30.00 an hour ($ 20.00 X 1 1/2).
Substitute holiday
A replacement holiday is another working day of rest work that is designated to replace a public vacation. Employees are entitled to be paid public holiday pay for a replacement holiday.
An alternative vacation must be arranged for a day that is no behind 3 months after the public holiday for which it was earned, or, if the employee has concurred digitally or in composing, the substitute day off can be arranged as much as 12 months after the public vacation.
If a staff member receives a substitute holiday, the employer must supply the staff member with a written declaration that sets out the general public vacation that is being substituted, the date of the substitute holiday, and the date that the declaration was provided to the employee. This statement must be offered to the employee before the public holiday.
Entitlements for public vacations
Entitlements for public vacations differ depending on such things as whether the holiday falls on a working day or a non-working day and whether the staff member works on the holiday. The different entitlements are set out listed below.
When a public vacation falls on a working day but the employee does not work
Most employees can get the public holiday off and make money public vacation pay. (Some workers might be needed to deal with a public holiday. See “Special guidelines for particular markets” later on in this chapter.)
When a public holiday falls on an employee’s non-working day or during a staff member’s getaway
When a public vacation falls on a day that is not generally a working day for a staff member, or during the employee’s getaway, the worker is entitled to either:
– a replacement vacation off with public holiday pay;.
or.
– public vacation spend for the general public holiday, if the staff member accepts this electronically or in composing (in this case, the employee will not be given a substitute day of rest).
When an employee who gets approved for the day off has agreed digitally or in composing to work on a public vacation
Most staff members have the right to get the public vacation off and make money public vacation pay. However, if a staff member agrees digitally or in composing to deal with the public vacation, there are two options:
– the worker is entitled to receive routine earnings for all hours dealt with the public vacation, plus a substitute day off work with public holiday pay;.
or.
– if the worker concurs electronically or in writing, they are entitled to public holiday pay for the public holiday plus premium spend for all hours worked on the public holiday. In this case, the staff member will not be given a substitute day off.
Example: Calculating public holiday pay plus premium pay
A public holiday falls on one of John-Duncan’s normal working days. He and his employer have actually concurred digitally or in writing that he will deal with the public vacation and that, instead of getting a replacement holiday, he will be paid public vacation pay plus premium spend for all the hours he works on the holiday.
John-Duncan frequently works eight hours a day, five days a week. His regular per hour pay rate is $20. He has worked on all his scheduled work days in the 4 work weeks before the general public holiday. He works eight hours on the general public vacation. He receives his getaway pay when his trip is taken. He was not on vacation throughout the four work weeks leading up to the public vacation
Step 1: compute public holiday pay:
1. Calculate John-Duncan’s overall routine salaries made in the four work weeks before the general public holiday:
8 hours daily X $20 per hour = $160 each day
$ 160 daily X 5 days = $800 per week
$ 800 X 4 work weeks = $3,200.
John-Duncan earned $3,200 in the four work weeks before the general public vacation.
2. Calculate the quantity of trip pay payable with respect to the four work week period:.
John-Duncan gets his getaway pay when he takes his trip. Because he was not on trip throughout the 4 work week period, the amount of getaway pay payable with respect to the four work weeks before the general public vacation = $0.
3. Total his total wages made and holiday pay and divide the amount by 20:.
$ 3,200 + $0 = $3,200.
$ 3,200 ÷ 20 = $160.
John-Duncan’s public holiday pay entitlement is $160.
Step 2: calculate premium pay
Finally, the premium pay owing to John-Duncan for his deal with the public vacation is determined:.
$ 20 per hour X 1 1/2 = $30.00.
$ 30.00 per hour X 8 hours worked = $240
John-Duncan’s premium pay privilege is $240.
Result: John-Duncan is entitled to public vacation pay of $160 and superior pay of $240, for an overall of $400.
When an employee accepts deal with a public vacation but stops working to do so
If an employee has actually agreed electronically or in composing to work on the general public vacation however does refrain from doing so – and does not have sensible cause for not having actually done so – the staff member has no right to public holiday pay or to an alternative day of rest with pay.
However, if the staff member has affordable cause for not working the public holiday, then privileges will depend upon which of the two choices below the staff member chose in exchange for consenting to work on the public holiday:
– if the worker had concurred electronically or in writing to deal with the public holiday for routine earnings plus an alternative day of rest with public vacation pay, the employee is entitled to a substitute day of rest work with public vacation pay;.
or.
– if the employee had concurred electronically or in composing to work on the public holiday for public holiday pay plus premium spend for each hour worked, they are entitled to be paid public vacation pay for the vacation. The worker is not entitled to get any exceptional pay because they did not perform any deal with the holiday.
When a staff member works only some of the hours they concurred to deal with a public holiday
If a worker has actually agreed digitally or in composing to work on the public vacation however works just a few of the hours they agreed to work, and does not have reasonable cause for stopping working to work all of the hours, the staff member is just entitled to get premium spend for each hour dealt with the holiday. The worker has no right to public holiday pay or a substitute day off work.
Example: A typical case
Trudi had agreed in writing that she would work eight hours on Canada Day but she just worked 4 hours and did not have sensible cause for employment failing to work the other four hours. Trudi is entitled just to premium pay for the 4 hours she worked on the vacation. She is not entitled to public vacation pay or to a substitute day of rest work.
However, if the staff member has reasonable cause for working only some of the hours they consented to work on the public holiday, then:
– the staff member is entitled to their regular rate for all the hours worked plus an alternative day off deal with public holiday pay;.
or.
– if the employee had agreed digitally or in composing to work on the general public vacation for public holiday pay plus premium pay for each hour worked, they are entitled to be paid public holiday pay plus premium spend for every hour worked on the holiday.
Special rules for specific industries
Special guidelines use to workers who operate in the following types of services:
– hotels, motels and traveler resorts;.
– dining establishments and taverns;.
– healthcare facilities and nursing homes;.
– constant operations (which are operations, or parts of operations, that do not stop or close more than as soon as a week – such as an oil refinery, alarm-monitoring business or the games part of a gambling establishment if the video games tables are open around the clock).
A worker who works in any of these businesses can be required to deal with a public holiday without their agreement, however only if the vacation falls on a day that the staff member would generally work and the staff member is not on holiday.
If an employee is required to work, they are entitled to either:
– their regular rate for the hours worked on the general public vacation, plus an alternative day of rest work with public holiday pay;.
or.
– public holiday pay plus premium pay for each hour worked.
The employer selects which of these alternatives will use.
Note that the company’s ability to require staff members to deal with a public vacation goes through the staff member’s right to take a day off for purposes of religious observance under the Ontario Human Rights Code, and to the regards to the worker’s employment contract. Note also that specific retail workers who work in continuous operations (for example, a 24-hour corner store) deserve to refuse to work on a public holiday because of the unique guidelines that apply to some retail employees. See the “Retail workers” chapter of this guide for additional information.
A staff member in the formerly noted companies who is needed to work on a public vacation that falls on their common working day but fails to do so, with sensible cause, is entitled to:
– an alternative vacation with public vacation pay;.
or.
– public vacation pay for the vacation.
The company picks which option will apply.
A worker in any of these businesses who is needed to work on a public holiday that falls on their regular working day but who stops working, with affordable cause, to work some of the hours they were required to work on the holiday is entitled to either:
– their routine rate for each hour dealt with the vacation plus an alternative holiday with public holiday pay;.
or.
– public vacation spend for the holiday plus premium spend for each hour worked.
The company selects which option will apply.
A staff member in any of these services who is required to work on a public holiday that falls on their normal working day however who stops working, without reasonable cause, to work part or all of the general public vacation is just entitled to get superior spend for each hour worked on the vacation (if any). The worker has no right to public holiday pay or a substitute day of rest work.
Overtime estimations when a staff member gets superior pay
Any hours dealt with a public holiday that are compensated with exceptional pay are not consisted of when figuring out whether a staff member has worked any overtime hours.
If employment ends
Sometimes an employee’s job comes to an end before the staff member can take an alternative vacation with public holiday pay that they have made. In this case, the employer should pay the employee’s public vacation pay at the very same time it pays the staff member’s final salaries. This is so despite the factor the task pertained to an end, whether it is since the staff member stopped, was fired for great factor, or for some other reason.