Plymouth Productions Honey I Shrank the Kids TV Servies v. Local 212 [1998] A.G.A.A. No. 82 (Alberta Grievance Arbitrator)

The local grieved that employees should have received holiday pay for Christmas, Boxing Day, and New Year’s during a temporary production shutdown between December 20, 1997 and January 4, 1998.  The arbitrator denied the grievance after concluding that under the collective agreement temporary production shutdowns were to be without compensation, a concept broad enough to cover holiday pay.  The Alberta Employment Standards code was reviewed and it was concluded that because the holidays were not work days for the employees (due to the production shutdown), the Code did not require holiday pay. 

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