Payment for Holidays

(c) Payment for Holidays

(1) The first method is the SJIB Holiday/Welfare Credit Scheme.  This scheme is based on operatives accruing holiday pay over periods of employment with member firms.  Holiday pay under this scheme is paid out at three dates throughout the year to coincide with the main holiday periods. Operatives cannot withdraw the accrued holiday pay outside those periods.

(i) The accrual period for holiday pay under the Holiday Credit Scheme is as follows:

Christmas and New Year Holiday
-  Accrued between May to September

Spring Holiday
-  Accrued between September to November

Annual Summer Holiday
-  Accrued between November to May

(ii) The three days of holiday not covered by the Holiday Credit Scheme are one day of Spring Holiday, one day of Autumn Holiday and the May Day Holiday, for which employers are obliged to pay the normal hours that would have been worked on these days including any applicable top-up payments, provided that the operative was at work or available for work the day before and the day after the holiday. For the purpose of this Rule, an operative shall be deemed to have worked on one or both of the qualifying days when the operative:

• has lost time through certified sickness;
• was on a rest period for the day following continuous
• working all the previous night;
• was absent with the employer’s permission.

(2) The second method is the SJIB Holiday with Pay Scheme.  Using this scheme, member firms deposit sums of money into the SJIB Holiday Pay Scheme to provide for the total number of holidays in each leave year.  The firm then use the funds to provide operatives’ holiday pay whenever they take their holidays.  When an operative leaves a member firm he would be paid any outstanding holiday pay at the time of leaving.