What Statutory (Stat) Holidays Are Recognized?
To be paid for seven hours, a temporary employee must work 15 seven-hour days in the 30 days prior to the stat holiday, and must be on active assignment the first working day following the stat. If you have worked less that 15 days in the previous 30 days, your stat entitlement will be pro rated. Exceptions: Christmas stats are defined as Christmas Day and Boxing Day. The practice at UBC is to close all departments except for essential services. To accommodate this and to ensure that our employees are not unduly penalized for it, we pay all our employees for the Christmas stats (as defined above) so long as they have worked in the month prior to the stats. If the temp has worked 15 seven-hour days, then they will receive a full seven-hour day for each of the stats regardless if they return to work or not. If not, she/he will receive a pro rated amount. Christmas Leave: Christmas Leave refers to the three workdays between Boxing Day and New year’s Day. In early November, the Staff Finde
