Paid Vacation Policy Sample printable pdf download

Paid Vacation Policy Sample

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Introduction: How to Use This Tool

Here’s a paid vacation policy you can use if you’re subject to the Alberta Employment

Standards Code (“ESC”) and associated regulations. This policy is a vanilla, simple template

designed to ensure compliance with the vacation pay requirements of the ESC and

regulations. It represents a minimum standard and you’ll need to adapt it if you

provide more generous vacation benefits than the law requires.

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ABC COMPANY PAID VACATION POLICY

Entitlement: Employees will be granted an annual vacation of:

 At least 2 weeks after each of the first 4 years of employment with ABC Company; and

 At least 3 weeks after 5 consecutive years of employment and each year of employment

with ABC Company after that.

In the event ABC Company exercises its right to establish a common anniversary date for all or

group of employees under Section 35 of the ESC, employees with a common anniversary date

will become entitled to annual vacation as follows:

a. On the first common anniversary date after employment begins with ABC

Company, at least 2 weeks’ vacation or a proportionally lesser period if the

employee has been employed for less than 1 year;

b. On the 2

, 3

, 4

, and 5

common anniversary date after employment begins

with ABC Company, at least 2 weeks’ vacation;

c. On the 6

common anniversary date after employment begins with ABC Company,

at least:

i. 3 weeks’ vacation; and

ii. Vacation for the period that the proportion referred to in subsection (a)

above, if any, bears to 1 week;

Paid Vacation Policy Sample