Minister for Employment, Productivity and Industrial Relations Jone Usamate has appealed to all employers who will be operating during the public holidays to remunerate their workers accordingly.
Usamate has clarified that a worker who is employed on any of the gazetted public holidays will be entitled to public holiday pay.
The Minister highlighted that Section 67 of the Employment Relations Act 2007 states that a worker must be paid in respect of each public holiday for the number of hours which the worker would normally have worked on that day had it not been a public holiday.
He says that if a worker is employed on Good Friday, Easter Saturday and Easter Monday, then the worker is entitled to double pay.
Usamate adds that the worker must be at work a day before and after the public holiday and if they are unable to do so then they must provide a valid reason or a medical certificate.
