Working Public Holidays – Questions Answered
IRHR 15/06 B
What happens if a public holiday falls on an employee’s day off?
For example:
- an employee who is rostered on a 4 day week ie Monday to Thursday, and
- a public holiday happens to fall on the Friday of one week
As the public holiday falls on a day that an employee does not usually work, then they are not entitled to pay or to take a holiday on another day.
We have a full time employee who works Monday to Friday, but they had to work on Easter Monday, the public holiday. How do I pay them?
As they are usually rostered on that day – they are entitled to their usual 8 hours pay for the day off. However, if they are required to work on the public holiday then there are a number of different possibilities dependent on their employment status and industrial instrument.
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