Canada Labour Code

Marginal note:Additional pay for holiday work

• 197 (1) An employee who is required to work on a day on which they are entitled to holiday pay shall be paid, in addition to the holiday pay for that day, wages at a rate equal to at least one and one-half times their regular rate of wages for the time that they work on that day.

• Marginal note:Employment in continuous operation

  (2) An employee employed in a continuous operation who is required to work on a day on which they are entitled to holiday pay shall

  • (a) be paid in accordance with subsection (1);

  • (b) be given a holiday with pay at some other time, either by adding it to their annual vacation or by granting it at a time convenient to both the employee and the employer; or

  • (c) be paid holiday pay for the first day on which they do not work after that day, if a collective agreement that is binding on the employer and the employee so provides.

• Marginal note:Employees not entitled to holiday pay

  (3) If an employee who is not entitled to holiday pay under subsection 196(3) is required to work on a general holiday, they shall be paid at a rate equal to at least one and one-half times their regular rate of wages for the time that they work on that day unless they are employed in a continuous operation, in which case they are entitled to their regular rate of wages for the time that they work on that day.