1.1 Employees will be granted the following holidays yearly during the life of the Agreement and paid at their regular base pay plus any premiums the employee regularly receives.
1.2 No employees will be scheduled on Thanksgiving or Christmas days. If the employee is normally scheduled on the days on which these two holidays fall, the employees must use their vacation or personal time (but not sick time).
1.3 The Distribution Center is not prohibited from operating and soliciting volunteers from working the above-mentioned holidays in 1.1 and 1.2. In addition to holiday pay, such volunteers will be paid at one and one half (1.5) times their regular base pay plus applicable premiums for hours worked.
1.4 If an employee works and starts a shift the day before a holiday per 1.3 above and works into a holiday’s hours, the employee receives a holiday pay for the hours that belong to the holiday. If the employee starts a shift that is on the actual holiday, then the holiday premium applies to the entire shift.