Section 1: Floating Holidays
There shall be granted annually six (6) Special Personal Floating Holidays with pay to regular full-time employees, such special holidays to be arranged at a time suitable to the employee and the Company, during the contract year, so that there will be no loss of production.
There shall be granted six (6) Twelve-Hour Special Personal Floating Holidays to those employees who are defined as Tour Workers.
It is agreed that the sixth SPFH day is in lieu of Family Day. Should there be a legislated change removing Family Day as a statutory holiday, this sixth SPFH will be revoked.
Section 2: Qualifying Conditions
For each Special (Personal) Floating Holiday taken, an employee will be granted eight (8) hours’ pay or twelve (12) hours pay for Tour Workers on the straight time rate of the employee’s regular job subject to the following:
(a) A new employee must have been on the payroll for not less than ninety (90) days to qualify for their first Special (Personal) Floating Holiday and on the payroll for one hundred and eighty (180) days to qualify for their second Special (Personal) Floating Holiday.
(b) Employees will not qualify for Special (Personal) Floating Holidays if on leave of absence of more than nine (9) months in the contract year, except in the case of sickness or injury.
(c) If an employee is required to work on any of these Special (Personal) Floating Holidays after a definite date has been designated for such holidays, the employee shall be paid overtime for such work at the rate of time and one-half. The employee will then be entitled to take the said holiday or holidays with pay at a later date to be mutually agreed upon.
(d) When the holiday is requested in writing seven (7) days in advance, the payment of overtime shall not be a factor in the granting of his Special (Personal) Floating Holidays. The employee shall receive written notice of the disposition of their request a minimum of seventy-two (72) hours prior to the requested Special (Personal) Floating Holiday.