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Thread ID: 68202	2006-04-21 01:18:00	Holiday Pay and Part-time employees	John W (523)	PC World Chat

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448102	2006-04-21 01:18:00	Hi there Can anyone point out to legalisation concerning holiday pay calculations for Part-time employees please. Its been my understanding and practice that each days holiday pay was calculated as 10% of the hours worked in the fortnight beforehand, but I cant find this online. Thanks............John in Mosgiel.	John W (523)
448103	2006-04-21 01:55:00	As I recall John, it used to be 6%. It may have changed. A NZ Google search for: part time holiday pay has some information that suggests it is 6%.	Bazza (407)
448104	2006-04-21 02:04:00	Yes, 6% is the calculation for holiday entitlement . My question relates to Stat days, I should have made that clearer . So, if you are a Part-time employee, you worked three full weeks before Easter, what pay would you be entitled to on Good Friday . Thanks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John .	John W (523)
448105	2006-04-21 02:10:00	www.ers.dol.govt.nz	pctek (84)
448106	2006-04-22 00:49:00	Thanks pcTek, Ive sent the query on to them. :-)	John W (523)
448107	2006-04-22 08:28:00	Yes, 6% is the calculation for holiday entitlement . My question relates to Stat days, I should have made that clearer . So, if you are a Part-time employee, you worked three full weeks before Easter, what pay would you be entitled to on Good Friday . Thanks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John . How ever much you would normally get on a Friday . The work you've done before it isn't relevant here (if I'm interpeting you correctly) . If, for example, you normally work 6 hours on Fridays and get paid $20/hr, then you would get paid $120 less tax for Easter Friday (if you don't work that day) . If you do, then you would get time and a half ($30/hr), so $180 less tax, and would also get 6 hours of alternative holiday (previously called "day in lieu") . The 6% or 10% (whichever it is) is annual leave and accrues as you work . It should say how many hours you have on your payslip . You use it to go on holiday and still get paid . Sorry if you know all this and I've misinterpeted the question :p .	george12 (7)
448108	2006-04-22 09:11:00	Thats fine if your an employee, from an employers POV, someone who starts the week Easter, shouldnt be entitled to a Full days pay on EFriday . With your reply, anyone starting say, the day before, EThursday, the employee should get full pay for EFriday, um sorry, thats not the way it works . Thats where the logic of EFriday PAY is based on 10% of the hours word in the previous fortnight . By Part time, I mean called in to work as required, casual if you like, rather than working regular part time hours, say 4hrs a day . Thanks . . . . . . . . . . . John .	John W (523)
448109	2006-04-23 15:12:00	It depends on work patterns, so say this casual worker works monday to friday, 4 hours a day, then on Good Friday they are entitled to 4 hours of pay as well as 4 hours pay on Easter Monday, as it's expected, however if it's irregular, you'll need to come to an agreement, the employment agreement should shed some clues to what is to be expected and usually covers the fixed term/casual workers. There's no time and a half applied, it's only applied if they work that day, and only few industries are allowed to be opened, so if you did work that day, then it's treated as time and a half and what hours you did. This would also be days in lieu but it's now changed to alternative holiday, so you'll need to see the new act on this. The 10% is new to me, so whether this was passed in this new act or not, I have no idea, but it's known to me as 6% applied to gross earnings, on a "pay as you go" basis as well as getting annual holidays. This should be in the employment agreement, so I would check that out first. I don't know if I helped at all, it's still a confusing section for me.	Kame (312)
448110	2006-04-24 08:34:00	Thats fine if your an employee, from an employers POV, someone who starts the week Easter, shouldnt be entitled to a Full days pay on EFriday . With your reply, anyone starting say, the day before, EThursday, the employee should get full pay for EFriday, um sorry, thats not the way it works . Thats where the logic of EFriday PAY is based on 10% of the hours word in the previous fortnight . By Part time, I mean called in to work as required, casual if you like, rather than working regular part time hours, say 4hrs a day . Thanks . . . . . . . . . . . John . I see, sorry - I didn't realise you meant casual as opposed to regular part time .	george12 (7)
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