Giving staff Monday plus Canada Day off a 'no-brainer,' some employers say

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Jun 28, 2025 2:29 PM EDT | Last Updated: 5 hours ago

Anyone who works Monday to Friday and is keen for a agelong play this Canada Day has apt had to bash a spot of calendar juggling to header with the ill-timed holiday.

The statutory vacation falls connected a Tuesday this year, forcing galore to enactment an unusual Monday squeezed betwixt days off, unless they use a abrogation time to destruct the wonky schedule.

Some startup companies accidental they're calling Monday a lavation and giving unit a paid time disconnected successful bid to creaseless retired the mid-week quirk and make a agelong weekend.

While it mightiness not marque consciousness connected paper, Klarify laminitis Moody Abdul said he believes successful prioritizing worker happiness.

"It's that 'if I instrumentality attraction of you, you'll instrumentality attraction of us' benignant of mentality," Abdul said.

Connecting the Canada Day vacation to the preceding play is conscionable 1 mode to show idiosyncratic appreciation, said Abdul, whose institution provides AI-driven note-taking and administrative tools for therapists.

For those successful Quebec, it's the 2nd vacation Tuesday successful a row, aft Saint-Jean Baptiste Day connected June 24 forced galore Fête nationale celebrants to grapple with their ain unusual workweek.

But with Canada Day pursuing truthful adjacent behind, it's not uncommon for Quebecers to instrumentality the full week disconnected betwixt the 2 holidays, overmuch the mode galore dainty the agelong betwixt Christmas and New Year's Day.

Of course, not each leader tin connection specified accommodations, and full-time workers with little displacement leeway volition person to take to instrumentality a abrogation time oregon conscionable marque bash with an unusual docket adjacent week.

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Ani Siddique, a probe adjunct astatine Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre successful Toronto, said helium asked acold successful beforehand for Monday disconnected successful bid to get up of colleagues with the aforesaid idea.

"I had to inquire for it, but I planned for things 1 oregon 2 months successful advance," helium said.

Morad Affifi, who sat successful a downtown Toronto parkland aft a displacement connected Friday, said the bulk of his planned Canada Day festivities instrumentality spot implicit the weekend, but he, too, dipped into his abrogation slope to debar moving Monday.

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Suze Mason, co-founder of the integer wellness level Sprout Family, said her 5 unit members person the Monday off, and she didn't expect the determination to person overmuch of an operational interaction connected her company.

Sprout Family helps co-ordinate fertility attraction done workplace benefits programs. She said galore of its clients, including larger Canadian organizations, program to dainty Monday similar a holiday.

"It felt similar it was the close concern determination to springiness our employees a time to remainder and recharge, portion besides not having arsenic overmuch of a nonstop interaction connected the business," Mason said.

She said extending the vacation to lucifer that of the companies Sprout Family works with tin besides marque it easier for unit to disconnect, knowing they aren't missing retired connected thing crucial.

"Sometimes erstwhile you're connected abrogation and the concern is racing up without you, it tin consciousness stressful," Mason said.

Vineet Johnson, laminitis and CEO of IRegained, said he's made it a recurring signifier to span awkward gaps betwixt days disconnected erstwhile they occur.

Johnson, whose institution develops neuro-rehabilitation devices, said helium did the aforesaid past December erstwhile Boxing Day fell connected a Thursday and different would person forced radical to instrumentality to enactment for conscionable 1 time earlier the weekend.

"It's an casual incentive, a no-brainer incentive," helium said.