A holiday created by statute — and in Canada, one carrying a pay entitlement.
A statutory holiday is one established by legislation rather than by proclamation or custom. The phrase is the working term in Canada, where 'stat holiday' or 'stat' is ordinary speech and carries an entitlement: an employee who works it is generally owed premium pay, and one who does not is generally owed the day.
Because employment law is provincial in Canada, the list differs by province, so a national statutory holiday list is a smaller thing than people expect.
Elsewhere the phrase is used loosely to mean any official holiday. Where precision matters it means specifically that a statute created it — which also means an authority cannot simply move it.
Public holiday is the general term. Statutory holiday says specifically that legislation created it, which in Canada also implies a pay entitlement.
A proclaimed holiday is declared by an executive act, often for one year. A statutory one stands until the statute changes.
See also public holiday · proclaimed holiday · gazetted holiday · bank holiday
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