Under the HIGA, section 29.4, an employer and a full-time or part-time employee may agree that, instead of the employee being paid 225% for the ordinary hourly rate of the employee for hours worked on a public holiday, the following arrangements are to apply:
- the employee is to be paid at 125% of the ordinary hourly rate of the employee for hours worked on the public holiday; and
- an amount of paid time equivalent to the hours worked on the public holiday is to be added to the employee's annual leave