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Statutory Holiday Pay Rules - Ontario

Calculation of Statutory Holiday Pay (aka "Public Holiday Pay" in Ontario) is defined as follows:

Eligibility:

Generally, employees qualify for the public holiday entitlement unless they:

  • fail without reasonable cause to work all of their last regularly scheduled day of work before the public holiday or all of their first regularly scheduled day of work after the public holiday (this is called the "Last and First Rule"); or
  • fail without reasonable cause to work their entire shift on the public holiday if they agreed to or were required to work that day.

To determine this eligibility in ELF, employee must meet ALL of the following criteria:

  1. Employee/Worker is 'Active' (i.e. not 'Terminated' or 'Inactive').
  2. Employee/Worker has a 'Delivered' or 'Paid' timesheet record with a work date on the last regularly scheduled day of work before the public holiday AND/OR on the first regularly scheduled day of work after the public holiday.

Calculation of Statutory Pay amount for Eligible Employees:

The amount of public holiday pay to which an employee is entitled is all of the regular wages earned by the employee in the four work weeks before the work week with the public holiday plus all of the vacation pay payable to the employee with respect to the four work weeks before the work week with the public holiday, divided by 20.

(see https://www.labour.gov.on.ca/english/es/pubs/guide/publicholidays.php)

 

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