Also, AC has an employee stock option plan that allow contributions directly off your pay check (up to 12%, I think - but I'm not that brave) and then the company matches 33% continuous contributions in April. How does it work at WJ?
Those would be Employee Stock Purchase Program. Options are granted to you and you have to buy them when you sell during the vesting period.
Westjet has:
Hourly pay
Stock options granted to you or; Restricted share units or; Cash (listed in diminishing rates of return and risk)
Stock purchase program of up to 20% of your gross wages and the company matches that at 100% up to the 20% of gross wages (straight time)
Profit sharing which is based on voodoo economics as far as I can tell.
curious as to what WJ vacation entitlement is per year and when it is awarded, how much credit do you get per day of vacation?
Maximum holiday time is 4 blocks of 5 days with 2 guaranteed days off which can be split or put on one end of the vacation, paid out at a rte of 4.5 hours per day. (4 weeks of holidays). We do not get paid 1.5 times for statutory holidays but get 10 days off in lieu that can be bid as holiday blocks, also with GDO's. These are bid around late September or early October. Bidding is done by a point system not a seniority system... I'll leave that to someone else to explain.
That should lay out our program pretty well. What is the holiday entitlement at Air Canada and how is it awarded and credited?
I'm going to knock this up a notch with my spice weasle. Bam!