Employee entitlements

Employees with leave already planned on the new holiday are entitled to the new holiday depending on the type of leave, and whether it was paid or unpaid:

• In both Australia and New Zealand, annual and sick leave must only be replaced if it’s “paid” and the day would have been a regular/normal work day for the employee.
  
• For Australian long service leave, the rules are determined by state or territory legislation.
• Unpaid leave cannot be replaced by a paid public holiday

For more information about which employees are entitled to the public holiday, see the available government guidance:

• Australia:
  • Fair Work Act 2009, s.114-116
  • Not working on public holidays
• New Zealand:
  • When a Public Holiday Falls Within a Leave Period
  • Public Holidays
  • Holidays Act 2003

Managing pre-existing leave requests

If you do have any leave requests that need to be changed, manage them depending on how they were generated.

• Leave requests from ESS – Get the manager or payroll user to update these.
• Leave requests from a third-party system – Either modify the leave request in the Advanced Payroll timesheet, or re-enter the leave request in the third-party system following the vendor’s instructions.
• Leave requests from Advanced Workforce Management – For information on updating public holidays in Workforce Management, see Roubler Support – Management Settings: Public Holidays.