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Vacation pay, the way your stub shows it
Set your vacation year to your anniversary or the calendar year, and copy your vacation balances from a stub: Saving YTD (often VAC ACCR) and Left to use (often HOL ACCR). Jobs → your job → Vacation pay.
A new Vacation pay card on Pay shows what’s left to use this year, what you’re saving for next year and at what percent, and your anniversary.
Vacation days come on a cheque of their own on that period’s payday, with their own tax, CPP and EI. On your anniversary, whatever is left is paid out on its own cheque, and this year’s saving becomes next year’s.
Union contracts can set vacation pay by years of service: tiers of years, percent and hours, an optional “pay at least the hours” switch, and minimum hours (Pro).
Cheque stubs take your two vacation balances, so you can compare them with the estimate.
Days off
Add a day off from the day screen: vacation, a paid sick day or other paid leave. Vacation can cover a range of dates.
Days off are paid but don’t count as hours worked or toward overtime. Pay shows them as Time off, and they’re in the spreadsheet and PDF exports.
In B.C. and Nova Scotia, paid days off count toward the 15 days you need before a stat holiday. B.C. holiday pay includes vacation and sick pay in its average.
Labour rules
New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador: a switch for employers who pay overtime at 1.5 times your own rate, not the minimum wage.
Saskatchewan: New Year’s Day, Remembrance Day or Christmas on a Sunday moves to Monday if your workplace is closed Sundays.
Federal jobs: holidays on a weekend you don’t work move to the working day before or after. Set your regular work days on the job, and the holiday asks which day you got off.
Averaging agreements: set one up on the job where your province allows it. Overtime then says “Averaged over” the number of weeks.
Jobs
Archived jobs can come back. Tap Archived jobs at the bottom of Jobs to unarchive or delete one.
Fixing a wrong default rate now offers to update the shifts already saved at the old rate.
Fixes and improvements
Contract rules files shared by Messages or Files now open in Paycheq instead of showing raw text, even before setup is finished. The import screen has a Use button at the top.
You can’t archive a job while you’re clocked in to it.
The estimates notice now appears in setup and at the bottom of the shift editor.
New switches in Edit job stack their label at the largest text sizes.
Good to know
Your data moves to the new version by itself when you open the app. Backups from earlier versions restore as before.
Estimates only. Not legal or tax advice. Your employer’s payroll may differ.