Employer Benefits
Vacation Pay
Employees are allowed to take time off for annual vacation and to be paid
vacation pay.
During the first year of employment, you earn (or accrue) vacation time to be
taken in the second year of employment. After completing twelve months of
employment, you have earned two weeks of annual vacation to be taken the next
year. This means that starting in the second year, you are allowed to take the
vacation earned in the year before.
After completing five years of employment, an employee is allowed to take three
weeks of annual vacation.
Your employer may offer you additional benefits that are above your salary.
These could include sick days, insurance (e.g. health, dental, life, disability etc.),
a pension plan etc.. It’s helpful to know all of the benefits that are included at the
time you are offered a job. These benefits are an additional bonus above your
rate of pay and can help you decide between multiple job offers.
Some employers
will allow you to
take paid
vacation before
you have earned
it. You will have
to check this with
your employer.
Some employers
will add your
vacation pay to
each paycheque,
rather than
paying you when
you take
vacation.
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Even though two
weeks of
vacation is the minimum, your employer may offer you more vacation pay.
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