33. Public holidays
33.1 Employees
will observe the following public holidays in the Australian Capital Territory:
- New Year’s
Day (or substitute);
-
Australia Day
(or substitute);
-
Good Friday
and Easter Monday;
-
Anzac Day (or
substitute);
-
the Queen’s
Birthday observance day (or substitute);
-
Labour Day or
equivalent;
- Christmas Day
(or substitute);
-
Boxing Day
(or substitute); and
-
any other
day, or part-day, declared or prescribed by or under a law of the Australian
Capital Territory to be observed generally within the Australian Capital
Territory, or a region of the Australian Capital Territory, as a public
holiday, other than a day or part-day, or a kind of day or part-day, that is
excluded by the Fair Work Regulations 2009 from counting as a public
holiday.
33.2 Where
the Clerk and an employee agree, another day may be substituted for any public
holiday prescribed above.
33.3 Where
a public holiday falls during a period when an employee is absent on leave (other
than annual or paid personal/carer’s leave) there is no entitlement to receive
payment as a public holiday. Payment for that day will be in accordance with
the entitlement for that form of leave (e.g. if the employee is on long service
leave at half pay, payment will be at half pay).
34. Closedown days
34.1 The
department will close down on the three work days between the Boxing Day and
New Year’s Day public holidays each year. Employees that would otherwise be
required to work on those days will be granted discretionary leave with pay for
those closedown days.
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