About time -NDP MP’s bill to make Remembrance Day a national statutory holiday gets s
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He's kinda like a vulture. Circling around until he spots what he thinks is a dying animal, lol.
If you are full time and working on a stat holiday you get paid for your regular shift + time and 1/2 for working the holiday. So 2.5 times your regular salary. If they get somebody hourly in they get the 1.5 time and regular employee gets his vacation day (paid). Either way the company pays 2.5 times what he normally would. I think that more than anything is why they close on most stat holidays. Boxing day is only exception and that is because it has become a retail frenzy that money in compensates for money out.
I think Ontario and/or Toronto used to have a law that stores must close but I believe it was challenged and possibly overturned. Either that or they just pay the fine for Boxing Day. Probably figure they won't make back their expenses on the others.
Some people actually understand what free means.
He likes low hanging fruit. Anything that actually involves sticking his neck out gets ignored. His ego is simply to fragile.
so name me a mall that is open on Christmas day
I am not taking anything away...
I stand with the rights of the worker who is not unionized to say no, I am not working on Christmas day or various other Stats, and you can't make me regardless of pressure to do so, because I am a Canadian with human rights and no I don't have to look for a different job
Totally off topic, Goob but every time I hear that name 'Boko Haram' I can't help but think it should have been a rock group rather than a terrorist org.
hm no mall I see
yes gerry it is all about choice and the freedom to choose I agree with you there but some people are less equal than others and I know you get that
but that was never really the issue here...the issue was about freedom to go to the service if one chose to by making Veteran's Day a holiday for all...it doesn't matter to me one way or another since part of what you say I agree with...war is sh*t and those sh*ts who send them to war have to justify sending young lives off to die and it isn't all noble, it isn't at all...it's sometimes a whim of some idiot in charge who simply can't problem solve or lets hundreds die for a yard of ground
there's no glory to a dead man, he is dead and will never enjoy the freedom that we know...only what we recognize as his sacrifice is a glory and a poor tribute to a man who is dead or comes back without his mind intact or half of his body blown away
we agree on more than you might ever know
I heard a chap on CTV yesterday making the point that if the kids are in school they will be participating in Remembrance Day ceremonies. If they are not, there's a good chance they will be as he put it 'watching cartoons'. When we are long gone it is they who we hope will carry the torch but how many will bother if they haven't been an active participant whilst young?
I agree with that, we always do remembrance of the dead at school
we have to have a certain number of teaching days each year...if this becomes a Stat, they will just rake back the PD days, kids don't get it anyway...and maybe they shoudn't
their comprehension is limited
Ah they expected answer as not rude, did not include insults, a little picture of yourself all confused.
Carry on now.
LOL
Is that like when you look up redundant in the dictionary and it says "see redundant"? Lol.