Hurrah for holidays!
What do you need to know about processing wages for annual leave over the Christmas break?
We’ve googled the important info for you.
Fairwork says:
Holiday pay (annual leave) allows an employee to be paid while having time off work.
Full-time and part-time employees get 4 weeks (pro-rataed for part-timers) of annual leave every year. Casual employees don’t get paid time off, but can ask their employer about taking unpaid leave for holidays.
Employees begin accumulating annual leave as soon as they start working. It can be taken any time during the first 12 months of work.
Public holidays
When a public holiday falls on a full-time or part-time employee’s usual work day, employers need to pay them their minimum pay rate for their usual hours. This applies even when an employee is on paid annual leave during a shut down. An employee’s roster can’t be changed to deliberately avoid this payment. Part-timers don’t need to work other days to ‘catchup’.
Unpaid leave and public holidays
An employee isn’t paid for any public holiday that falls during a time when the employee is on unpaid leave.
If we take care wages for you, we’ll confirm when your team are taking a break and process their leave for you.
You can get all the details from the horses mouth here:
Fairwork annual leave
Fairwork public holidays
