Paid Time Off

[CdnCarrie]

Digging through this page is great; I also loved seeing the nine general holidays where you either don’t work or are paid extra for working. Does Manitoba stand out in this area, or are other provinces similar?

I live somewhere considered progressive in employee rights, but we still work all holidays with no additional pay.

Fairly standard across Canada. Mandatory 3rd week of vacation varies by length of employment among provinces,

 

[CdnCarrie]

1) If you get vacation, it can't be taken away. You have to be allowed to use it or be paid for it.

3) Employees HAVE to get an unpaid meal break. And that meal break HAS to happen no sooner than 3 hours after the start of your shift, and no later than 5 hours after. No tacking onto the beginning or end of your shift. If you do not get your meal break in that time, they have to pay you a penalty equal to one hour's pay, plus overtime pay for the length of your meal break. I have to admit I hated that, because I worked 8 straight without a meal break for the first 30 years of my working lift by choice. The law prohibits an employee from waiving a meal break

Everyone in Canada by law gets vacation and unpaid meal time. It’s labour law and really a basic human right sort of thing .
Weird you think this exceptional. It’s a basic labour law up here.

So sad there are workers in a country like the USA where this is not standard practice.