The Right to Refuse to Work on Public HolidaysMost employees of a retail business have the right to refuse to work on a public holiday even if the employee does not qualify for the public holiday. If an employee has agreed in writing to work on a public holiday, the employee can later decline to work on that day by giving the employer at least 48 hours' notice before the employee's work on the public holiday was to begin.Where the public holiday falls on a day that would ordinarily be a working day, most retail employees qualify for the public holiday off work with public holiday pay.Where the public holiday falls on a day that would not ordinarily be a working day, or the employee is on vacation, most retail employees qualify for a substitute day off with public holiday pay.The Right to Refuse to Work on SundaysThere are two sets of rules for employees of retail businesses. The rule that applies depends on whether the employee was hired before or after September 4, 2001.Sunday Rules for Employees Hired Before September 4, 2001An employee of a retail business who was hired before September 4, 2001 has the right to refuse to work on Sundays.If an employee has agreed to work on Sundays, whether or not the agreement was made when he or she was hired, the employee can later decline to work on a Sunday by giving the employer at least 48 hours' notice before the employee's work was to begin.Sunday Rules for Employees Hired On or After September 4, 2001 An employee of a retail business who was hired on or after September 4, 2001 has the right to refuse to work on Sundays unless the employee agreed in writing at the time of being hired to work on Sundays. Note that an employer cannot make an agreement to work on Sundays a condition of hire if doing so would violate the Human Rights Code. (Contact the Ontario Human Rights Commission for further information.) If an employee did agree in writing at the time of being hired to work on Sundays, he or she can later decline to work on Sundays for reasons of religious belief or religious observance by giving the employer at least 48 hours' notice before the employee's work was to begin. In addition, such an employee would be entitled to refuse to work on a specific Sunday if that Sunday was a public holiday. The employee in that case would be exercising the right to refuse to work on a public holiday. The employee would be required to give the employer at least 48 hours' notice before the employee's work was to begin. An employee who did not agree in writing at the time of being hired to work on Sundays may agree at some later point to work on Sundays or on a particular Sunday. In that case, the employee could subsequently decline to work the Sunday(s) by giving the employer at least 48 hours' notice before the employee's work was to begin.
what does any of this have to do with Loblaws
This has alot to do with Loblaws............they are the only retail grocery chain that are forcing employees to believe that Sunday is a regular working day. IT IS NOT!!!! All the other food store chains such as Metro, Sobeys, Longo's, etc offer a choice to their employees and also an incentive when they do work sundays.Loblaws does not!! They are forcing new and long term employees to work sunday as a regular work day.Shame!
Many of the part time employees (in which they're all part time since there is no such thing as full time anymore) don't know enough about their union or their rights. I'm not a big fan of our union but that's a whole other ballgame.Loblaws is more or less like a Walmart with union dues!
WAKE UP PEOPLE.... Little by little this will revert to asian working standards!!! remember UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED WE FALL. And that is exactly what the 1% ers (fat cats) want. Human Resources... it means exactly what it states, they are mining us like resources, we must stand together, or we will flounder before its to late.
Asian working standards?I think this has more to do with the greed of capitalism then an 'ethnic' standard.