Statutory Holidays

Statutory Holidays

The majority of employees in Quebec are entitled to a leave of absence and an indemnity for each of the following statutory holidays, paid and public holidays:
  1. January 1st (New Year's Day)
  2. Good Friday or Easter Monday, at the employer's choice
  3. The Monday before May 25th (National Patriots' day)
  4. June 24th (national holiday) - see note below
  5. July 1st. If this date falls on a Sunday: July 2 (Canada Day)
  6. 1st Monday in September (Labor Day)
  7. 2nd Monday in October (Thanksgiving)
  8. December 25th (Christmas Day)
This leave must be taken with 3 weeks preceding or following the holiday, except in the case of national holiday.
The full article is available on the CNESST website. For more information, we offer a direct link to the article on labor standards by clicking here.
There are two ways to add a holiday to an employee's file:
  1. Add the holiday to the schedule
  2. Add the holiday in the timesheet section
You can also add one or more stat. holidays in a batch (to several employees simultaneously).

Statutory Holidays calculation method

The calculation of stat. holidays is done according to the following formula for Quebec:
It is the cumulative gross salary for the last 4 weeks, excluding overtime, divided by 20.
This amount divided by the employee's hourly salary represents the number hours for which the employee will have to be paid for this statutory holiday.
The stat. holidays calculation NEVER TAKES into account the current period or the week containing the stat. holidays.

If you are a new user to Emprez, and/or your employee(s) do not have 4 weeks of seniority, please follow these steps.
To see the calculation used by Emprez for the employee for his holiday:
  1. Access his file,
  2. In the Parameters > Work Parameters,
  3. Go to the Timesheets tab,
  4. Go down at the bottom of this next window to find Stat. Holiday Calculation Method.

Add a stat. holiday to the schedule

  1. Click on the date you want to add the stat. holiday,
  2. In the next window, the Type of shift menu, choose Stat. Holiday. The number of hours you put in is just for your information. The amount is calculated automatically.
  3. Click Save.
Remember to publish the schedule with  and save once you are sure of the changes.
If the payroll system is not configured to export stat. holiday, the "Stat. Holiday" choice will not appear in the list.

Add a stat. holiday in the timesheets section

If you omitted to add the holiday to the schedule, you can add it manually in the Timesheets section of the employee's file:

  1. Access the Employee's file,
  2. Click on Timesheets, at the bottom in the gray buttons,
  3. On the next page, Click Add +, bottom right,
  4. Fill in the red boxes with the correct information. The Type must be a stat. Holiday.
  5. Save and approve the Timesheet created.
If the payroll system is not configured to export stat. holiday, the "Stat. Holiday" choice will not appear in the list.


Adding or deleting stat. holidays in a batch

  1. Click on the Employees tab,
  2. Choose Add or Delete Stat. Holidays (Batch),
  3. Select the employees: by Enterprises, OR Service, Department, OR by names,
  4. The Stat. holidays will be added for the following dates button is checked by default,
    If you want to delete all the stat. holidays that are currently in your employees' schedule, check the other box If stat. Holidays exist for the specified date it will be deleted.
  5. Choose the date(s) with the calendar then click on Search,
  6. Check the employees concerned,
  7. Click Save.
If you want to delete a date when creating your holidays in a batch, click on  in the list under the Details section.
The delete stat. holidays batch tool will not delete other types of shifts for the same day, even if they are not published.
The added stat. holidays batch will be visible to the employee once registered.

Add a stat. holiday to a work shift

If your employees work on a stat. holiday and they receive a cumulative stat. holiday premium for their shift, you must add a holiday to the employee's shift as follows:
  1. On the shift, click on  in the left corner of the cell,
  2. Fill the shift as:
  1. Shift Start - End: 00:00 - 00:01,
  2. Type: Stat. Holiday,
  1. Click on Add.
If the payroll system is not configured to export stat. holiday, the "Stat. Holiday" choice will not appear in the list.


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