The long weekend is the weekend after next and it is called BC Day.the holiday is one of 9 legal or statutory holidays. To be paid and average days pay for the holiday you have had to been employed with the employer for 30 days and worked 15 of the last 30 days.
If you work on the stat holiday you be paid 1 and a half times the rate for all hours worked up to 12 then you must be paid double time for hours worked over 12.
The BC Day holiday is one of the long weekends that occurs in 8 months of the calendar year and boxing day is not a legal holiday in December.
Today in history, July 24 1967
The visiting French National President makes his Viva Quebec Libre statement to 100,000 people.
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