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So cool. Is the September Holiday a Civic Holiday or a Statuatory Holiday?
Great question. It is a Public Holiday.
Below is some information from ESA – Ontario
http://www.labour.gov.on.ca/english/es/pubs/guide/publicholidays.php
Ontario has nine public holidays:
•New Year’s Day
•Family Day
•Good Friday
•Victoria Day
•Canada Day
•Labour Day
•Thanksgiving Day
•Christmas Day
•Boxing Day (December 26).
Most employees who qualify are entitled to take these days off work and be paid public holiday pay. Alternatively, they can agree in writing to work on the holiday and they will be paid:
•public holiday pay plus premium pay for the hours worked on the public holiday;
or
•their regular rate for hours worked on the holiday, plus they will receive another day off (called a “substitute” holiday) with public holiday pay. If the employee has earned a substitute day off with public holiday pay, the public holiday pay calculation is done with respect to the four work weeks before the work week in which the substitute day off falls.
Some employees may be required to work on a public holiday. (See Special Rules for Certain Industries later in this Chapter.) While most employees are eligible for the public holiday entitlement, some employees work in jobs that are not covered by the public holiday provisions of the ESA. To determine whether a job is covered, or if special rules apply, see “Industries and Jobs with ESA Exemptions and Special Rules.”
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.
Regular wages does not include any overtime or premium pay payable to an employee.
While some employers give their employees a holiday on Easter Sunday, Easter Monday, the first Monday in August, or Remembrance Day, the employer is not required to do so under the Employment Standards Act, 2000 (ESA).
Hello McDonald Green,
My question is….
How does someone deal with a negative co-worker appropriately?
Thanks!
Jen
We offer training for this kind of social intelligence challenge so please visit our training page! However, my quickest and most resonating advice would be as follows:
Plan for a meeting with this “negative” person by discussing the impact to you specifically.
1. State the behaviour
2. Describe the impact of the behaviour
3. Ask questions to gain understanding of the behaviour
4. Find options and solutions together
5. Share and ascertain committment to change
6. Reaffirm persons worth (we all need to feel like we matter to one another)
Hope this helps Jen …. and remember each situation is different depending upon the participants, issue and progression of the situation
Cheers,
Helen G. Jowett, CHRP, MBA
CEO of McDonald-Green Consulting Inc.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I am a student from Cologne in Germany I study Business Administration at the University of Siegen. At the moment I am visiting my aunt in Tornado, West Virginia, to practice my english.
I contact, because I have to write a term paper about the differences between German Green Human Resources Management and the american way to manage a business on a green way. It is difficult to find good statistics in German libraries or on the internet. Thus I thought I could ask you whether you can give me some informations or statistics that illustrate how many companies or firms exercise green human resources and take care of the environment.
I would like to know in which ways companies and businesses in the U.S.A. can lead, teach and organize their employees on an eco-friendly way. Additionally I am interested in the measures they can take to arrange human resources management in a green way.
On the other hand i would like to know if there are any laws companies must follow?
I hope you can help me. Thanking you in advance for your help.
Sincerely yours,
Wolfgang Gauf
Dear Mr Gauf:
What a wonderful study. I aplogize that we are unable to assist you as we are not experts in this field.
Our name is that of family heritage, however we are a small human resources organization and we do practice sustainable business initiatives but we are not large enough to articulate any epertise in this subject matter.
All the best in your studies!
…
H