What Will You Learn?
You’ll learn the minimum employment and labour standards related to public/statutory holidays across Canada plus best practices for managing these holidays. The guide will answer these essential statutory holiday questions:
- What are statutory holidays in my jurisdiction?
- How do I calculate stat. holiday pay?
- Do stat. holidays count toward overtime?
- How does working part-time affect statutory holiday entitlements?
- Can you pay employees their regular wages for a public holiday, without doing the calculations described in this guide?
- Should employees be given premium pay or a substituted day for working on a statutory holiday?
- Who decides which day to substitute for a statutory holiday?
- When do weekly overtime rules apply in a week with a public holiday?
- Is the first Monday in August a statutory holiday or a civic holiday in my jurisdiction?
