Act respecting labour standards Chapter IV - Larbour standards (Section 39.1 to 97)

Statutory general holidays

The following days are statutory general holidays:

1. 1 January;
2. Good Friday or Easter Monday, at the option of the employer; the Monday preceding 25 May;

   Interpretation

   The Easter holiday corresponds to Good Friday or Easter Monday, at the employer’s option.

3. the Monday preceding 25 May;

   Interpretation

   The Monday preceding May 25th corresponds to National Patriots’ Day (Order-in-council 1322-2002, previously Dollard Day).

4. 1 July, or 2 July where the 1st falls on a Sunday;

   Interpretation

   July 1st or, if this date falls on a Sunday, July 2nd is a statutory holiday.

   It should be noted that under section 3 of An Act respecting hours and days of admission to commercial establishments (R.S.Q., c. H-2.1), the public cannot be admitted, subject to certain exceptions, (Regulation respecting periods of admission to commercial establishments (R.S.Q., c. H-2.1, R.1)), to a commercial establishment, on the following days:

   1. 1 January;
   2. Easter Sunday;
   3. 24 June;
   4. 1 July;
   5. the first Monday in September;
   6. 25 December.

   The scope of this Act is stipulated in section 1:

   "This Act applies to commercial establishments where products are offered for sale by retail to any member of the public, including a member of a club or cooperative or of another group of consumers.

   Any space or stall in markets, particularly in covered markets and flea markets, is considered to be a commercial establishment."

5. the first Monday in September;
6. the second Monday in October;
7. 25 December.

1979, c. 45, s. 60; 1990, c. 73, s. 18; 1992, c. 26, s. 10; 1995, c. 16, s. 1; 2002, c. 80, s. 19.

Editor’s note: For the National Holiday leave, please refer to part dealing with the National Holiday Act.

Editor’s note: Interpretative provisions relating to collective agreements

An Act to amend the National Holiday Act and other legislative provisions (2007, c.4) assented to on June 8, 2007.

Art. 3

In a collective agreement entered into before June 8, 2007, the following rule apply when the 24th of June and the 1st of July fall on a Sunday:

• with respect to an employee of an establishment to which the Act respecting hours and days of admission to commercial establishments applies and for whom Sunday is a regular working day, a reference to the 2nd of July as a public holiday must be read as a reference to the 1st of July, unless the latter is also a public holiday under the collective agreement.