We provide you with an example of how to calculate holiday pay or you can contact Employment Relations Infoline . Holiday pay should be paid before the employee's holiday starts. Employers wishing to adopt this practice should seek qualified advice on where such an arrangement would be acceptable and how it can be provided for in employment agreements. Their next employment year will begin from the shutdown date. By law, every employee is entitled to not less than 11 public holidays each year, which should be paid holidays for the employee when they fall on days of the week on which the employee would normally work.
Public holidays are in addition to paid annual leave days.
Easter Monday Anzac Day Queen's Birthday Labour Day the anniversary of the province in which the employee is employed. Complete information on actual public holiday dates from 1998 through to 2004 is available on this site. An employee does not have to work on public holidays unless the employment agreement provides for this or they agree to do so. There are special rules for Waitangi Day and Anzac Day. Employers have to provide a day off in lieu only if an employee works for ordinary pay on these days.