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Chapter Five : Terms of Employment

25. Public Holidays

 

(1) The public holidays proclaimed in terms of the Public Holidays Act, 1994, shall be recognized as paid public holidays if they fall on a normal working day

 

(2) The annual holiday payment made by the Council within the annual shutdown period shall be inclusive of payment for all the public holidays that fall within the three-week shutdown period, and shall include payment for the public holiday that falls on the 16th of December, notwithstanding whether or not it falls within the annual shutdown period. Notwithstanding the above, Public Holidays that fall within the annual shutdown period, but is declared after the commencement of the benefit year, will not be included in the annual holiday payment made by the Council.

 

(3) An employee who is not required to work on a public holiday, which would normally be a working day, shall receive his normal daily basic wage in respect of that public holiday.

 

(4) An employee who is required to work on a public holiday, which would normally be a working day shall, in addition to wages paid in terms of paragraph (a), be paid at a rate equal to his ordinary basic wage in respect of all hours worked on that day.

 

(5) An employee who is required to work on a public holiday which falls on a Saturday or Sunday shall be remunerated in accordance with normal overtime rates, and shall not be entitled to any additional payment on such a public holiday.