Holidays Act: Our 21-year-old problem child

Holidays Act: Our 21-year-old problem child
Holidays Act calculations are no day at the beach for payroll providers. (Image: Getty)
Nikitin Sallee
The Holidays Act has been problematic since it was passed in 2003. Successive governments have taken more than two decades to fail to fix it. This is the first of a three-part series.We all know what a “day” is. We all know what a “week” is. No problem.Then we meet the Holidays Act.That law attaches a bunch of adjectives to those simple concepts.How much does the firm owe an employee for a day off on a public holiday? That depends on the worker’s “average daily pay”, but only if you can’...

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