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Thread ID: 98910 2009-04-12 17:41:00 Why do shops close on easter? Ninjabear (2948) PC World Chat
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764349 2009-04-14 09:29:00 A lot of places overseas don't open Sunday - Pacific Islands, Hong Kong, Germany, Austria, in fact most of Europe. Why don't we close up on Sunday because "they do it overseas"

Why can't New Zealand "be different to overseas"

Easter, ANZAC and Christmas day are about the only time we can get our family together. Stuff opening retail outlets because "they do it overseas"!!

Other public holidays my wife has to work, because if she doesn't they cut her hours....

That's slightly wrong. Places do open on easter sunday in hong kong and its the day everyone went out to shop. Only offices are close

You walk thru the street on an easter sunday you will see all the retail shops open and not 1 open

I also find the New year holiday is inappropriate also not that I can do anything about it.Most shop closes for like a week or two which is far too long.

Sometimes I think its appropriate things from overseas and not say " thats just how nz do things" because by saying that its kinda like giving people the impression we don't care, we are that lazy?
Don't mean it as an offence but nz do sure get alot of holiday 		Ninjabear (2948)
764350 2009-04-14 09:35:00 I DO OWN my own business . - and I wont work those days - IF and when the law changes Then I will decide .

People need time off, if they dont get it, mistakes and some costly can happen .

Whats the problem - Well just the other day I heard on the radio, that some companies are asking staff to reduce their leave to 3 weeks and work longer . Which comes back to the point - work or look someplace else .

I didn't say people shouldn't get time off, I said people should go and work for good employers who care for their staff, but everyone gets 20 days at the moment and you can't be forced to have less . National wants to change the policy, probably what you heard on the radio . I know someone who works in retail and negotiated no weekend work at all, and they got paid more as well than the previous employer who had required some weekend work .

When I was a teenager I worked three months every summer for twelve hours, seven days a week and worked all the Stat holidays . We loved the holidays because we got paid triple time for eight hours and double time for four hours . Missing Xmas was no big deal, you just fit stuff in where you can . All this compulsion on employers to close is nonsense really . You shouldn't have the Government of the country telling people when they can open a shop, if they have to interfere at all they can do what they do now, set higher pay rates on holidays . 		Twelvevolts (5457)
764351 2009-04-14 10:32:00 who would normally have worked on Sunday, did not get paid and had to take it as annual leave if they did want to be paid something.

Same with us. Except when we found this out we weren't allowed to apply for leave. 		--Wolf-- (128)
764352 2009-04-14 11:42:00 If Sunday wasn't a public holiday then why was everything closed?

Tell my boss to go **** himself? Um, no thanks . I work at Pak N Sav . Huge place . Lots of employees . Me saying something to him won't make him pay hundreds of people .

Everything was closed as it was a no trading day .

You really should approach your boss, you are entitled to pay for a day which would have otherwise have been a working day . It sounds like this is the case for you .


12: Determination of what would otherwise be working day

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(1) This section applies for the purpose of determining an employee's entitlements to a public holiday, an alternative holiday, to sick leave, or to bereavement leave .
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(4) For the purposes of public holidays, if an employee would otherwise work any amount of time on a public holiday, that day must be treated as a day that would otherwise be a working day for the employee .




Umm yea Sunday was a Public Holiday .
That's what I was saying in my earlier post, Easter seems to be different to the rest of the public holidays and they don't have to pay you if it would have been a normal working day for you .


44: Days that are public holidays

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(1) The following days are public holidays:

(a) Christmas Day:
(b) Boxing Day:
(c) New Year's Day:
d) 2 January:
(e) Waitangi Day:
(f) Good Friday:
(g) Easter Monday:
(h) ANZAC Day:
(i) the birthday of the reigning Sovereign (observed on the first Monday in June):
(j) Labour Day (being the fourth Monday in October):
(k) the day of the anniversary of a province or the day locally observed as that day .

Interesting that Easter Sunday isn't mentioned in the list of holidays . One could almost conclude that it's not a public holiday . .


Not sure what the exact law says, I'm just repeating what my brother was telling me the other day .

This much is obvious . In future, please refrain from arguing something you know nothing about, other than what your brother told you the other day . It just makes you look like a fool .

Quoted sections are from the Holidays Act ( . govt . nz/act/public/2003/0129/latest/DLM236387 . html" target="_blank">legislation . govt . nz) . 		roddy_boy (4115)
764353 2009-04-14 13:11:00 This much is obvious . In future, please refrain from arguing . . . you know nothing . . . you look like a fool .
Pot hacking the kettle again? 		R2x1 (4628)
764354 2009-04-14 13:41:00 Well the Easter holidays are great, stores/businesses should be able to decide whether they stay opened or closed. It is crap how they get fined, just another excuse for the fat to get fatter. rob_on_guitar (4196)
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