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KevanGuy · 06-21-2006, 04:40 PM

So, I just had a bunch of my staff complain that they don't get a long weekend and they don't get paid for a day off this year. In case you weren't aware (as I wasn't) Canada Day is on a Saturday this year. And how sweet it is! As a small business owner I loathe Stat Holidays. I have to pay a bunch of people not to work and I hate it.

What are people's employers doing for them this year? I know some companies with nicer bosses then me (and probably more money to throw around) give staff a paid day off anyway.

What is your deal?

J pold · 06-21-2006, 04:45 PM

WHAT?!?! I just assumed I am going to get of Monday off!

I need to get to the Bottom of this

albertGQ · 06-21-2006, 04:45 PM

I get paid day off.

Don't your workers get the Monday off then? I thought the Monday would qualify as the stat holiday since Canada Day falls on the weekend.

RedMan12 · 06-21-2006, 04:47 PM

I get Monday off and get paid. Keep a tight ship eh KG?

Nufy · 06-21-2006, 04:49 PM

Monday off.

Full Pay. If I work I get OT.

KevanGuy · 06-21-2006, 04:50 PM

If Canada Day is on Sunday it moves to Monday. But Saturday stays as Saturday.

Not so much a tight ship, more that I dont like paying people to sit at home. My business is based on hours worked that I bill back to my clients. Paying staff and not billing isn't really a great business plan.

Buff · 06-21-2006, 04:50 PM

I believe that you are supposed to give them Friday or Monday off since it lands on a Saturday. You'll have to check into that, but I'm pretty sure that is how it works. That is the way it has happened for me at my previous places of employment when Canada Day landed on a Saturday.

I'll have to check with my bosses, but I'm pretty certain we'll be closed on Friday before or Monday after Canada Day.

KevanGuy · 06-21-2006, 04:54 PM

Dream on Buff! Heh,

Canada Day
July 1, except when it falls on a Sunday, then it is July 2.
2006 - Jul 1
2007 - Jul 2

http://www3.gov.ab.ca/hre/employment...t/holidays.asp

Mccree · 06-21-2006, 04:54 PM

I get Monday off paid as to 99% of the people I know

Bring_Back_Shantz · 06-21-2006, 04:54 PM

Yeah, dude, I'm pretty sure you're required to give them a day off.
As far as I know everyone is entitled to 10 or 11 Stat holidays, so if they land on a weekend, you're required to give them a day off in lieu of (unless they are contract workers).'

Anyway, I get Friday off instead. Whoopee.

Edit: I guess KG cleard that one up.
I'll be damned.

Burninator · 06-21-2006, 04:57 PM

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Originally Posted by KevanGuy

My business is based on hours worked that I bill back to my clients. Paying staff and not billing isn't really a great business plan.

Thats how the business I work at pays for the bills. But we get the friday off paid.

JiriHrdina · 06-21-2006, 04:59 PM

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Originally Posted by KevanGuy

Dream on Biff! Heh,

Canada Day
July 1, except when it falls on a Sunday, then it is July 2.
2006 - Jul 1
2007 - Jul 2

http://www3.gov.ab.ca/hre/employment...t/holidays.asp

Alberta has the strictest stat regulations in the country I think. I too was in the boat the KG is and as a small business owner stat holidays were brutal. Lost revenue, clients still want their crap in the same timeline, and I always had to work stats anyways.

Boooo-urns to stats. Booooo-urns.

KevanGuy · 06-21-2006, 04:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Burninator

Thats how the business I work at pays for the bills. But we get the friday off paid.

Congratulations. I addressed that in my first post.

return to the red · 06-21-2006, 05:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Bring_Back_Shantz

Yeah, dude, I'm pretty sure you're required to give them a day off.
As far as I know everyone is entitled to 10 or 11 Stat holidays, so if they land on a weekend, you're required to give them a day off in lieu of (unless they are contract workers).'

Anyway, I get Friday off instead. Whoopee.

Edit: I guess KG cleard that one up.
I'll be damned.

Not true, If Saturday is a normal working day and you are closed on that day then Saturday is your day off. If a business is normally closed on Saturdays then a day must be given

Sharpen 'Em · 06-21-2006, 05:52 PM

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Originally Posted by return to the red

Not true, If Saturday is a normal working day and you are closed on that day then Saturday is your day off. If a business is normally closed on Saturdays then a day must be given

That's what I understand as well. The thing I don't like about it is that what if Saturday happens to be the busiest day of the week. I would much rather be closed on the Monday.

KevanGuy · 06-21-2006, 05:55 PM

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Originally Posted by return to the red

If a business is normally closed on Saturdays then a day must be given

I don't think so. Not in Alberta anyway...from that link above...

Eligible employee – not normally scheduled to work on day of the holiday – does not work
Employee is not entitled to receive pay for the holiday nor another day off with pay.

Rita · 06-21-2006, 06:06 PM

I don't get how it's decided whether it's the Monday you get off, or the Friday. I had assumed that it would be the Friday, since that's the weekday closest to the day of the holiday, but when I was filling out my timesheet at work today, everyone told me it was Monday, and it sounded like Monday was the day off for EVERYONE. But now that I read this thread, I hear of a lot of you having Fridays off. Is it just the boss that decides which day, or what?

KevanGuy · 06-21-2006, 06:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Rita

Is it just the boss that decides which day, or what?

Yup.

HelloHockeyFans · 06-21-2006, 06:20 PM

I work the government. I get Friday off because I work compressed. I get Monday off because it's a Stat!

suhweeeeet

jolinar of malkshor · 06-21-2006, 06:22 PM

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Originally Posted by KevanGuy

Yup.

Give your employees a break man. They are the ones that keep your business running and making YOU money. Dont be so greedy.