Is Rememberance Day a Stat Holiday?
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I could be wrong, though I don't believe I am. It is treated by many as a stat, but it is not officially a stat.ReluctantPooner said:
If it were a stat holiday, as it falls on Saturday this year, would not the Friday be a day off as well?
Any HR people out there want to answer this?
Remembrance Day is a provincially mandated holiday. In Manitoba it is only a holiday until 1 PM, when all the stores open and it turns into just another shopping day. So the stores are closed for three or four hours. Not much of a special day, eh?
and I believe that only government agency offices (and unionized jobs) are closed on the Monday. Where I work is open as a regular day. It has been that way at every company I have worked with. Only my brother-in-law and his kids have the day off - they all work for the government.westwoody said:Remembrance Day is a provincially mandated holiday. In Manitoba it is only a holiday until 1 PM, when all the stores open and it turns into just another shopping day. So the stores are closed for three or four hours. Not much of a special day, eh?
Not much of a holiday indeed.
I checked with an HR person. This is how it works.Rod Steel said:
Those who would normally work a Saturday either get Saturday off, or get paid OT. If you don't normally work the Saturday you don't get anything special from it, legally, your employer can have a normal work day past 1:00, and a full day on the Monday.
From any other stat, if it fell on a weekend, then you would get the Monday or Friday off. Rememberance Day seems to have it's own catgory.
Not in Manitoba. It was I wouldn't have to work tommorrow. The time off, other than the morning hours of Nov 11, is up to the employer. Personally I think Remembrance Day should be stat holiday, but I would be concerned if it was the meaning of the day might be lost.Mars_Man said:
I remember when we used to go to school on rememberance day, people went to work on rememberance day, and then everything was stopped ( my parents remember when they used to stop the buses in the streets! ) for a few minutes of silence at 11 o'clock.
Then I remember later in school when they started giving everyone the morning off ... supposedly so everyone could go to the ceremonies ... and evrything was supposed to start off at 12:30. Needless to say, most people just never showed up in the afternoon.
Finally we have it as it is now, where everyone gets a day off, a lot get a long weekend even if like this year it falls on a saturday, ceremonies at schools and businesses and institutions are held not on rememberance day, but on some convenient weekday close to it, and everyone talks about their plans for the "long weekend."
Personally, I think the old way was better and showed more respect for the day and it's meaning.
Then I remember later in school when they started giving everyone the morning off ... supposedly so everyone could go to the ceremonies ... and evrything was supposed to start off at 12:30. Needless to say, most people just never showed up in the afternoon.
Finally we have it as it is now, where everyone gets a day off, a lot get a long weekend even if like this year it falls on a saturday, ceremonies at schools and businesses and institutions are held not on rememberance day, but on some convenient weekday close to it, and everyone talks about their plans for the "long weekend."
Personally, I think the old way was better and showed more respect for the day and it's meaning.
I get time and a half for working on it and I get a paid day off for it. Also, many places are closed Monday for it.
