Part-time Employees have right to reschedule when a scheduled day falls on a named holiday

Part-time Employees have the right to request to reschedule a scheduled day that falls on a named holiday.

Under Article 18.03 (c) of the current UNA Provincial Collective Agreement (which is amended in Article 30 of the Agreement) “where a part-time Employee is not scheduled to work on what would otherwise be a regular work day directly as a result of a Named Holiday, those hours may, at the request of the Employee, be rescheduled in the Cycle of the Shift Schedule.”

This means an Employee may choose whether or not to make a request. If the Employee makes a request then the hours must be rescheduled in the Cycle of the Shift Schedule. This provision gives employees the option of adding an additional shift somewhere else during the impacted week and avoids a reduction in pay for that pay period.

For those Employees who do not make a request to reschedule the shift, they receive an additional 5 per cent pay in lieu of the paid time off for a named holiday provided to a Full-time Employee.