How Many Alternative Holidays?

Q: Needing confirmation on if an employee works from 1/1/23 10.00 pm until 6.00 am 2/1/24 he thinks this is 2 different public holidays and so the employee should get 2 stat days needing to confirm if this is correct or no?


A: If no agreement is in place, then the employee would get two alternative holidays if both days are otherwise working days for the employee.

Here is a reference from the EmploymentNZ website:

Tom works 8 hours from 10 pm Christmas Day to 6 am on Boxing Day and both are otherwise working days for Tom Tom gets:

8 hours pay of at least time and a half, and

2 alternative holidays (one each for Christmas and Boxing Day).

Reference: https://www.employment.govt.nz/leave-and-holidays/public-holidays/employees-working-shifts-or-on-call/

 

 

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