Section 197 — Canada Labour Code: Additional pay for holiday work
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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. An employee employed in a continuous operation who is required to work on a day on which they are entitled to holiday pay shall be paid in accordance with subsection (1); 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 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. [Repealed, 2018, c. 27, s. 459]
Official source: laws-lois.justice.gc.ca
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