Everything to know about Public Holiday pay rates

Apr 14, 2022

Working this weekend on a public holiday? It’s important to know your rights as an employee! We are here to help!

Awards, enterprise agreements and other registered agreements can provide entitlements for working public holidays, including:

• extra pay (for example public holiday rates)
• an extra day off or extra annual leave
• minimum shift lengths on public holidays
• agreeing to substitute a public holiday for another day.

 

FairWork Australia has a handy tool you can use to learn your industry-specific rights, see here to give it a go. 
This tool covers everything you need to know when working this weekend, including: 

1. Your specific award type
2. Alternative public holiday payments
3. Minimum 
4. Substituting public holidays 

 

Here’s some hospitality categories with your specific rights you can read about!

• Restaurants or cafes, see here
• Fast food or takeaway, see here
• Accomodation, Hotels or Gaming, see here. 
• Catering (other than by a restaurant), see here

Keen to get a job in hospo? See here for available roles near you now!