Part 3Holidays and closure of offices

Part 3—Holidays and closure of offices 3—Holidays (1) Subject to subclause (2), the following days are to be observed as holidays in the employment of a public sector agency: (a) all public holidays; (b) any other days declared by proclamation to be holidays in that employment. (2) A public sector agency may require employees of the agency to attend for duty on a holiday. 4—Closure of workplaces etc (1) The Minister may direct— (a) that all or any of the workplaces of employees of a public sector agency be closed; and (b) that specified classes of employees be not required to work, on a specified day or days. (2) If an employee is not required to work on a particular day because of a direction under subclause (1) then, subject to subclause (3), the employee is to be taken to have been granted recreation leave on that day or those days. (3) An employee who is not required to work on a day by reason of a direction under subclause (1) must, if the employee would, but for subclause (2), have been entitled to sick leave on that day, be granted the sick leave, and, in that event, the employee is to be taken not to have been granted recreation leave on that day. (4) An employee who is not required to work on a day by reason of a direction under subclause (1) may, if the employee would, but for subclause (2), have been entitled to be absent from the employee's place of employment under flexible working arrangements adopted by the agency, be absent on that basis, and, in that event, the employee is to be taken not to have been granted recreation leave on that day.