While being rostered on to work on a public holiday can feel like a tough gig, if your work has given you enough notice, there may not be much you can do.
My relative works full-time for a business that is open every day of the year except Christmas Day. He has two days off per week, but not a standard weekend.
I spoke with Professor Joellen Riley Munton from the Faculty of Law at the University of Technology Sydney about your question, and she told me that “the only definite entitlement we all have respecting work on public holidays is the right to refuse to work on those days”. Professor Munton said that whether your family member’s work is covered by an award will also influence his entitlements.
“We can’t just sign away by entering into a contract that undermines them. However, sometimes statutory entitlements are drafted in a sufficiently fuzzy way that they can be affected by individual agreements,” she says.
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