Am I eligible for paid leave between Boxing Day and New Year’s Day*?
The length of time you are allowed to take depends on your employee group. The table below shows the time you are allowed to be on leave.
| UBC Employee Group | Allowed Length of Winter Leave |
| Administrative Executive | To offset the significant number of hours you work beyond your usual job requirements, you may be granted these three days as leave with pay if you are normally scheduled to work between Boxing Day and New Year’s Day. |
| BCGEU Vancouver (Child Care) | Not eligible. |
| BCGEU Okanagan | Regular employees: you are granted three additional days leave of absence with pay per calendar year as Winter Leave. These days may be used during the three working days during the winter holiday season (between Boxing and New Year’s Day). These days may alternatively be used at other times during the year subject to reasonable timing of notice and operational requirements. Auxiliary employees: you are entitled to one day of paid leave as follows:
Those employees who are designated to remain on duty on the Christmas floater (in keeping with operational requirements) shall receive a day off in lieu within the following 12 months. |
| CUPE 116 | If you are normally scheduled to work between Boxing Day and New Year’s Day, you will be granted these three days as leave with pay, unless you are required to be at work for operational reasons. If this applies to you, you will be eligible for three paid leave days at another time. Pay grades for employees within Food Services include a 1% wage differential in lieu of the provisions of Article 18.10 and are therefore not entitled to Paid Leave Between Boxing Day and New Year’s Day. |
| CUPE 2278 | Not eligible. |
| CUPE 2950 | If you are normally scheduled to work between Boxing Day and New Year’s Day, you will be granted these three days as leave with pay, unless you are required to be at work for operational reasons. If this applies to you, you will be eligible for three paid leave days at another time. If you are a Hiring Solutions employee, eligibility for Winter Leave is based on the Letter of Understanding (LOU) #7 of the CUPE 2950 Collective Agreement |
| Executive Administrative | If you are normally scheduled to work between Boxing Day and New Year’s Day, you will be granted these three days as leave with pay, unless you are required to be at work for operational reasons. If this applies to you, you will be eligible for three paid leave days at another time. |
| IUOE 115 | If you are normally scheduled to work, you will be granted three days’ leave of absence with pay to be taken between Boxing Day and New Year’s Day unless you are required to work for operational reasons. If so, you will be paid at straight time and granted three paid leave of absence days at some mutually agreeable time between December and February. This also applies to shift employees. |
| Management & Professional | To offset the significant number of hours you work beyond your usual job requirements, you may be granted these three days as leave with pay if you are normally scheduled to work between Boxing Day and New Year’s Day. |
| Non-Union Technicians and Research Assistants | If you are normally scheduled to work, you will be granted three days’ leave of absence with pay to be taken between Boxing Day and New Year’s Day unless you are required to work for operational reasons. If so, you will be granted three paid days off at some other mutually agreeable time. |
| Postdoctoral Fellows (Award Recipients) | May be arranged with the supervisor or head. |
| Post-doctoral Fellows (Employees) | May be arranged with the supervisor or head. |
*The period after the Christmas/Boxing Day statutory holidays and before New Year’s Day was previously referred to as a holiday closure, seasonal closure or Christmas leave.