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.
The base pay rate doesn’t include:
- any incentive-based payments
- bonuses
- loadings
- monetary allowances
- overtime or
- penalty rates.
An employee's roster can't be changed to deliberately avoid this payment.
Disclaimer
While every care is taken that the information above is correct, it is provided only as background information and companies should look to government advice if unsure about rules and laws relating to holiday pay and absence.
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