{"id":913,"date":"2010-10-26T14:52:27","date_gmt":"2010-10-26T17:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hr-pros.ca\/?p=913"},"modified":"2011-02-09T11:06:27","modified_gmt":"2011-02-09T15:06:27","slug":"november-11-remembrance-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hr-pros.ca\/fr\/november-11-remembrance-day\/","title":{"rendered":"November 11 &#8211; Remembrance Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>November 11 is Remembrance Day in Canada.\u00a0\u00a0It is a solemn occasion to remember those who have made the ultimate sacrifice.\u00a0 In Nova Scotia, Remembrance Day is legislated by the <em>Remembrance Day Act<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We are reposting a previous entry for your information.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Remembrance Day Act<\/em> requires all companies to suspend operations, for three full minutes, starting at one minute before eleven o\u2019clock in the forenoon on Remembrance Day.<\/p>\n<p>Remembrance Day is not a Holiday in Nova Scotia but commercial activities are curtailed.\u00a0 Having said this, there are a number of industries where it is not possible to cease operations, for example health care, police services, transport, service stations.\u00a0 Section 4 of the Act provides the list of exemptions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It is worth noting that employees who do not work on Remembrance Day do not get paid unless the employer gratuitously offered to add Remembrance Day as a benefit.\u00a0 For employees required to work on Remembrance Day, the employer will grant a holiday with pay with their annual vacation or at another time mutually agreed between the employee and the employer.<\/p>\n<p>For more information visit the Nova Scotia Government webpage:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gov.ns.ca\/lwd\/legislation\/\">http:\/\/www.gov.ns.ca\/lwd\/legislation\/<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Visit the <a title=\"Canadian Virtual War Memorial\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vac-acc.gc.ca\/remembers\/sub.cfm?source=collections\/virtualmem\" target=\"_blank\">Canadian Virtual War Memorial<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 11 is Remembrance Day in Canada.\u00a0\u00a0It is a solemn occasion to remember those who have made the ultimate sacrifice.\u00a0 In Nova Scotia, Remembrance Day is legislated by the Remembrance Day Act.\u00a0\u00a0 We are reposting a previous entry for your information. The Remembrance Day Act requires all companies to suspend operations, for three full minutes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[140,89],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-resources","category-regulations","tag-remembrance-day"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hr-pros.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hr-pros.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hr-pros.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hr-pros.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hr-pros.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=913"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/hr-pros.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":920,"href":"https:\/\/hr-pros.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions\/920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hr-pros.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hr-pros.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hr-pros.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}