Avoid The Holiday Blues

With the holiday season fast approaching it is timely to remind ourselves of the rules relating to public and annual leave holiday entitlements for the 2006-2007 Christmas and New Year holiday period. Luckily for most employers public holiday calculations this year will not be as difficult as last year because the Christmas and New Year public holidays fall on Mondays and Tuesdays. Whereas last year Christmas and New Year day fell on Sundays. In other words there is no need to worry about Mondayisation this year.

With the four public holidays in the Christmas/New Year break occurring on Mondays and Tuesdays, staff who normally work these days should be paid their normal relevant daily pay if they take the day off.