Ontario’s Employment Standards Act gives most people the right to 2 or 3 weeks of paid vacation in a year. Some workers may get more paid vacation time, based on what their employer agrees to give them or what’s in their collective agreement. The period of 12 months in which you earn your vacation time is called your «entitlement year». Your employer decides when this year begins. It could begin:. If the entitlement year starts ontzrio a date that’s different than the date you started working, you still earn vacation pay from your first day of work to the day before the noney year begins.