With Christmas approaching, the PayTech Adviceline always receives a surge of questions around public holidays, closedowns, annual holidays, and other leave situations during this period. In this special webinar, we will cover all key payroll considerations for paying employees over the Christmas and New Year period.

This session will step through how and when public holidays can be transferred, how closedowns operate, what happens when annual holidays overlap with other leave types, and how to correctly calculate entitlements to ensure compliance with the Holidays Act.

All attendees will receive a comprehensive set of notes with multiple worked examples.

Webinar Content:

• Whether transferring public holidays applies this year (including 25 & 26 December 2025 and 1 & 2 January 2026, which fall on Thursday and Friday).
• Rules for transferring all or part of a public holiday.
• How public holidays apply to shift workers, including situations where shifts span two days or multiple shifts occur in one day.
• Entitlements when an employee works on a public holiday.
• On-call arrangements over the Christmas period and entitlements for when work is or is not performed.
• Determining an “otherwise working day” and when an alternative holiday applies.
• How and when employers can require employees to take annual holidays over the Christmas break.
• Rules for customary closedowns, including recent case law updates.
• How sick, bereavement, or family violence leave affects planned annual holidays.
• Impacts of unpaid leave during this period.
• Paying annual holiday pay in advance when payroll is closed, including the two available tax calculation methods.
• Impacts on leave when an employee is on ACC during the Christmas/New Year period.
• Termination payments during this period and how public holidays are included or excluded.

Date: 20 November 2025 (1 pm – 3 pm)

Cost

• NZPPA member: $75 + GST
• NZPPA non-member: $105 + GST