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See the People’s Law School website for more on [https://www.peopleslawschool.ca/everyday-legal-problems/work/getting-paid/hours-work-and-working-overtime minimum daily pay].
See the People’s Law School website for more on [https://www.peopleslawschool.ca/everyday-legal-problems/work/getting-paid/hours-work-and-working-overtime minimum daily pay].


===Holidays you get paid for===
===Meal breaks===
There are ten public holidays in  BC. They are called statutory holidays because the ''Employment Standards Act'' says they are holidays. Statute is another name for a law made by the government.
If you’re covered by BC’s employment standards law, your employer mustn’t allow you to work more than five consecutive hours without a meal break. Each meal break must be at least half an hour long. An employer who requires an employee to work or be available for work during a meal break must count the meal break as time worked by the employee. Employers are not required to provide coffee breaks.


Normally, on a statutory holiday, you take the day off work but you still get paid. The statutory holidays are:
See the People’s Law School website for more on [https://www.peopleslawschool.ca/everyday-legal-problems/work/getting-paid/hours-work-and-working-overtime meal breaks].
 
*New Year's Day
*Family Day
*Good Friday
*Victoria Day
*Canada Day
*British Columbia Day
*Labour Day
*Thanksgiving Day
*Remembrance Day
*Christmas Day
Easter Sunday,  Easter  Monday,  and  Boxing Day are not statutory holidays, though many employers will offer employees a day off with pay on those dates.
 
To get paid for the statutory holiday, you must:
 
*have been employed for at least 30 calendar days, and
*have worked on at least 15 of the 30 days before the statutory holiday.
 
If you work under an averaging agreement any time in the 30 days before the statutory holiday, you automatically have the right to the statutory holiday.
 
There are different payment rules which apply if you are required to work on a statutory holiday. The Employment Standards Branch website has information about this at [http://www.labour.gov.bc.ca/esb www.labour.gov.bc.ca/esb].


===Vacation pay===
===Vacation pay===
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