As a small business owner you might be looking forward to a few days off to take a little break and eat too much chocolate.
As an employer you might be a bit less keen to pay your team when they are not working.
Remember: ‘Employees (except casual employees) who normally work on the day a public holiday falls will be paid their base pay rate for the ordinary hours they would have worked if they had not been away because of the public holiday. An employee’s roster can’t be changed to deliberately avoid this payment. An employee doesn’t get paid for a public holiday if they don’t normally work on the day that the public holiday falls.‘ says Fairwork
Part time staff need to be paid for their normal work days, if you ask them to come in on an extra day to get everything done, you need to pay them extra – no swapsies!
