Ontario Holiday on Monday
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RLENT
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Thanks for the heads up - a TST driver here at the J in London, just happened to mention it to me. Hopefully, I'll get something and avoid the long, and from the looks of things, fairly chilly, weekend here in the Great White North. 
If not .... whatcha cookin' for dinner this weekend ?
If not .... whatcha cookin' for dinner this weekend ?
Put your feet up and watch all the fun from Daytona!! Look at it this way, there are worse J's to be stuck at!!
But if pjjjjj invites ya for dinner I'd jump at it, something tells me she knows how to cook very well!!!!!
And frigid??? It went all the way up to 30 degrees here today (I'm an hour up the 401). I washed the van in the driveway in a t-shirt!! It was 50 earlier in the week, wife almost fired up the central air.
But if pjjjjj invites ya for dinner I'd jump at it, something tells me she knows how to cook very well!!!!!
And frigid??? It went all the way up to 30 degrees here today (I'm an hour up the 401). I washed the van in the driveway in a t-shirt!! It was 50 earlier in the week, wife almost fired up the central air
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RLENT
Veteran Expediter
Good idea .... and here there will be no honey-do list either ... it's sounding better all the time ....
Yup, no doubt - this one in fact is pretty nice. I might even be tempted to roll the dice and go for a haircut at the in-house hair joint ..... they couldn't do no worse than that retired NawYawker did down at the one in St. Augustine, FL right ?
Besides it will grow back anyways ....... eventually ....
I never turn down a home-cooked meal .....
Heheheh ...... do you offer Saturday service .... and is there a waiting list ?
Mine got pretty scuzzy up in Peterborough the other day, but I looked at it yesterday after driving thru the rain on the way out and I was surprised at how clean it looked.
It was a pretty nice day for it. I spent about 2 hours standing outside this afternoon talking and shooting the breeze with a TST driver ..... I think we pretty much have most of the problems solved .....
Good grief .......
Hmmm...taking a load up there to deliver on Monday morning...might be some detention pay in our future
Premier Dalton McGuinty introduced the holiday last year, boosting the number of annual statutory holidays in Ontario to nine. Between cheers of joy, there were rumblings from employees and employers who weren't sure how to interpret it.
A year later, the confusion persists. Like last year, Monday will not be a holiday for everyone in the province.
While there are no specific numbers, as many as 30 per cent of Ontarians could be working Monday. Some provincial and municipal officials will be off, as will school and library employees.
But many retail store employees will report to work, and so will federal government employees and employees in federally regulated sectors because they are not subject to provincial law.
For some, the new holiday will be just another workday. Many unionized workers will not get the day off because their contracts already give them more than the nine holidays required by law.
All employers who already grant more than the legal minimum of nine statutory holidays (including Family Day) are exempt under the province's Employment Standards Act.
But almost all members of Ontario Public Service Employees Union, some 130,000 government employees, will get the day off or premium pay.
"Last year, there were some managers who didn't understand what it was," said Don Ford, communications officer for the union.
"Some people were told to work and should have been eligible for stat day pay but didn't get it. We had to file grievances," said Ford. That has now been resolved.
But many others are still confused.
Daniel Lublin, a Toronto lawyer specializing in employment law, said clients – employees and employers – have been asking him in the past few days what the holiday means.
"Not all companies have adapted to it," he said.