Double Pay For Those Working On Good Friday, Easter Saturday, Easter Monday

Double Pay For Those Working On Good Friday, Easter Saturday, Easter Monday

Fiji Sun, 18 April 2019 – The Minister for Employment, Productivity and Industrial Relations, Youth and Sports Parveen Kumar Bala has clarified that a worker who is employed on any of the gazetted public holidays will be entitled for public holiday pay.

The Minister highlighted that Section 67 of the Employment Relations Act (ERA) 2007 states that a worker must be paid in respect of each public holiday for the number of hours which the worker would normally have worked on that day had it not been a public holiday.

“If a worker is employed this Good Friday, Easter Saturday and Easter Monday, then the worker is entitled to double pay.”…read more.