17. To benefit from a statutory general holiday, an employee must not have been absent from work, without the employer’s authorization or without valid cause, on the working day preceding or following the holiday.
Despite the first paragraph, an employee who does not report to work on the day before or after a statutory general holiday because of sickness must produce a medical certificate to be entitled to the statutory general holiday indemnity.
1529-2022O.C. 1529-2022, s. 17.