Christmas and New Year Holidays Transfer

This Christmas Day (25 December 2011) and New Year's Day (1 January 2012) both fall on a Sunday.

The rules about transferring these days apply, which in this case is to transfer them to Tuesday. 

This means that if Sunday is a day an employee would otherwise have worked, those days are observed on Sunday.  If Sunday is otherwise a day that an employee would not work, the day is transferred to and observed on Tuesday.

Boxing Day (26 December 2011) and 2 January 2012 both fall on a Monday and therefore no transfer takes place, unless you have a specific transfer agreement with your employee as allowed under the 2011 Holidays Act amendment.

For more information visit the Department of Labour website.