{"id":928,"date":"2010-11-22T10:57:27","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T14:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hr-pros.ca\/?p=928"},"modified":"2013-04-25T09:47:32","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T12:47:32","slug":"do-you-have-to-pay-an-employee-for-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hr-pros.ca\/fr\/do-you-have-to-pay-an-employee-for-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you have to pay an employee for Christmas?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Christmas Is A Statutory Holiday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Holiday season is nearly here and employees are soon to start asking about Christmas and Boxing Days and paid time-off.\u00a0 Under the Nova Scotia Labour Standards Code<\/em> only Christmas is a Statutory Holiday.\u00a0 While many companies acknowledge Boxing Day with paid time-off, it is not mandatory to do so.\u00a0<\/p>\n

There are five Statutory Holidays in Nova Scotia:\u00a0 New Years Day, Good Friday, Canada Day, Labour and Christmas Day.\u00a0 All employers are required to grant their employees the Statutory Holiday off with pay.\u00a0 Should the Holiday fall on a weekend (eg. Christmas 2010 falls on a Saturday) or another non-working day for an employee (eg. regularly schedule day off or vacation day), the employer shall grant a Holiday with pay on the working day immediately following the Holiday, or on the day immediately following the employee\u2019s vacation, or grant another day on a mutually agreed day.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

But what about George Costanza from Seinfeld?\u00a0 You might remember he did not celebrate Christmas rather he celebrated Festivus.\u00a0 Though this example is tongue in cheek the fact is that Nova Scotia is becoming increasing diverse and not all Nova Scotians celebrate Christmas.\u00a0 Regardless of religious belief, race, creed or ethnicity, the Nova Scotia<\/em> Human Rights Act<\/em> implies that all employees will get Christmas Day off with pay.\u00a0 In the event that an employee indicates that they celebrate an alternate religious event, the employer would do well to provide that day off.\u00a0 Note, if they employer provided pay on Christmas day they would not obligated to provide pay on the alternative day off.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Details of the Festivus Holiday at http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dS7-jcsB_WQ<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Christmas Is A Statutory Holiday. The Holiday season is nearly here and employees are soon to start asking about Christmas and Boxing Days and paid time-off.\u00a0 Under the Nova Scotia Labour Standards Code only Christmas is a Statutory Holiday.\u00a0 While many companies acknowledge Boxing Day with paid time-off, it is not mandatory to do so.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,89,72],"tags":[26,148],"class_list":["post-928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-rights","category-regulations","category-wage","tag-diversity","tag-holiday"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t