What managers ask most
Quebec minimums under the Act respecting labour standards (LNT). Your company policy or a collective agreement can give more, never less.
One-screen cheat sheet
Vacation calculator
Vacation length depends on uninterrupted service at the end of the reference year. Vacation pay is 4% or 6% of gross wages earned in that year.
Enter a hire date and wages to see the entitlement.
Vacation pay owed at departure
For the final pay. Covers last year's vacation not yet taken plus what has built up in the current reference year.
Rules managers get wrong
Statutory holidays and holiday pay
Quebec has 8 paid statutory holidays. Holiday pay is 1/20 of wages earned in the 4 complete pay weeks before the holiday week, excluding overtime.
Not statutory in Quebec: Boxing Day, Remembrance Day, National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, Civic Holiday (August).
Holiday pay calculator
Leave request lookup
Pick the situation the employee described. You get the days, what is paid, eligibility, notice, documents and what to tell them.
Unlimited vacation in Quebec: what it implies
Unlimited (or flexible) vacation is legal in Quebec, but only as a layer on top of the LNT minimums. It does not remove the minimum, the vacation pay or the payout at departure.
What the law still requires
Business and culture risks
Recommended structure: statutory bank + managed time off
Departure exposure estimator
If nobody tracked time off, this is what an employee leaving today could claim as unpaid statutory vacation pay.
Policy checklist before you launch
Employee leave log
Track each employee's vacation, paid days and long absences against the legal limits. Data stays in this browser. Download a backup regularly.