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I started a new job Sept 28, 2009. I was not paid for Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day and Boxing Day Stat Holiday. Is this right?? Am I not entitled to receive payment for those days?


The Civic Holiday of the first Monday in August is not a statutory holiday in Manitoba. See the Employment Standards Website for the province of Manitoba here: http://www.gov.mb.ca/labour/standards/doc,gen-holidays-after-april-30-07,factsheet.html


Canada Day is ALWAYS July 1st, cannot be substituted just like Christmas.


i worked 12 hour shift starting a 7 pm june 30th til 7 am the 1st what am in entitled to for pay


Does anybody know if Canada Day this year can be substituted by Friday the 2nd July?


Can your employer reduce your hours on a statutory holiday? I am a perm part time employee almost 10yrs with company. This has never happened b4 . I have always worked my regular hrs and got paid time in a half. If I work I will be paid for the hours I work. I want to work my regular hours. Help!


How Long do you have to be working for an employer, before they have to pay you for the holidays?


That's right Meagan, I agree. And we should also have a 3 day celebration for people whose name starts with an "A". Then another week off for everyone who has ever met a mother or father in their lives. And of course another week off for people who have seen a moose, and everyone's birthday should also be a stat holiday - for the entire office where they work:-) Keep the ideas coming, if we collect enough signatures we may be able to submit the request to the Senate!


I think that there should be two days a year dedicated to aunts and uncles and would like to know who I would have to talk to make it an official holiday we have granparents day family day and mother and fathers day why dont we have an auntie and uncle\'s day it would make sense to me


how many days does it take to qualify for a stat holiday do you have to be with a company for 90 days or is it mandatory now likwork the day before and after to qualify or is it both in ontario


if you are scheduled off the day before and the day after a stat holiday and happen to be sick the second day after the stat---does the company have to pay you for the stat?


2010 x'mas day and boxing day both fall on a non-working day - saturday and sunday, so which days will be a statutory day in Ontario???


Hi...I am trying to schedule for Victoria Day and I am unsure if it is a stat holiday in NS or not. At the top of the page it said it was not a stat but yet it is included in the stat holiday list for NS. Can you clarify this for me so I can finish my schedule? Thanks


Hello friends, people in Ontario don't want businesses to be allowed to open on STAT. holidays and I cannot figure out why! I am small business owner who is FORCED to close and this is unfair!


Nope, Canada Day in 2010 is Thursday so if you want to take Friday off you'll need to use a vacation day for that.


Does anybody know if Canada Day this year can be substituted by Friday the 2nd July?


In Ontario, if you work Easter Monday, are your employers supposed to pay you 1.5 times your regular pay?


I work in the retail business and the company cut one of my days off because the already gave me the Easter sunday off. In that way a got my 40 hours. Is that correct?


your list doesnt show Louis Riel day in MB which is same thing as family day in ON.


just wondering why easter sunday is not considered a holiday but everything is closed


Good Friday (Alberta): If an employee usually doesn't work a Friday, does the employer still have to pay them for Good Friday? What if they work some Fridays?


How do I figure out what I have to pay my employee . I have just started and am confussed as to how you figure out Stat pay


If an Incorperation hire some one who will be starting on a statutory holiday, What is this company required to pay the new employee for working this Statory Holliday.


Please go to the official site regarding public holidays for federally regulated employees. Nowhere does it state that Easter Monday is a federally regulated public holiday. http://www.hrsdc.gc.ca/eng/labour/publications/employment_standards/general_holidays.shtml


When I contacted the government of Ontario they said only Good Friday is a statutory holiday and not Easter Monday? I live in the Province of Ontario? Please advise


On February 28, 2010 Canada won its 14th gold medal by beating the USA in men's hockey! I therefore have created the Facebook group "Let's Petition The Canadian Government To Make Feb. 28 Hockey Day In Canada" as well as an official petition online that will be given to the Prime Minister! In order to bring attention to this issue there will be a hockey game played on the sidewalk in Vancouver during the CTV news Monday Mar. 15 at 5 p.m. Links: http://www.facebook.com/reqs.php#!/group.php?gid=335902042204 http://www.petitiononline.com/HDIC621/petition.html


Hmm...we can't find which page has the Easter dates wrong for 2010 - please send a link. Thank you!


Your Easter Holiday date is wrong. Good Friday is April 2nd and Easter Monday April 5th according to every other web site. Perghaps you should consider correcting it!!


if you work for an American co.in Canada...dont they have to follow Canadian rules? we got paid for the holiday and the ppl that worked it got reg rate..should we not have gotten 1.5 if worked on top of the holiday rate???...we were told since the co. is American they do not have to recognize the 1.5 rate...


I would like to know how stat holidays are calculated. I'm getting conflicting information. I've been told it is calculated by the lenght of time employee has been employed and if they worked the day before and after. Then I was told that it's calculated on the four weeks prior and divide that amount by 20.


What are the rules surrounding workers with head offices in other jurisdictions? Are we not entitled to the stat holidays in the province in which we work?


Family Day in Ontario and Alberta is a statutory holiday. Only federal government employees are exempt in these provinces. Should an employee voluntarily accept to work he or she is entitled to x2 holiday rate wages.


How can Saturday April 10th be Good Friday?


I'd like to know to what extent does the family day has to be off. Is it mandatory for employers to give us the day off or is it up to them to decide?


Sorry. Jan 1st is a new year so it's actually 2011. You are correct in your comments.


Please note that New Years is on a Saturday this year and not Friday as stated in your comments.


Government employees have a bargained union agreement to get 10 paid holiday days per year. That is why they were not able to take Family day off, where the rest of us were. That would make 11 days for them - to which they are not entitled. Personally, I think that ALL business should be required to be closed ALL statutory holidays.


In Ontario, can I get pay on my work in the family day in February ? Or optional by the compamy? Thanks


Are bar tenders and servers supposed to be paid for stat holidays?



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