Labour Relations Act, 1995 (Act No. 66 of 1995)

Notices

National Bargaining Council for the Hairdressing, Cosmetology, Beauty and Skincare Industry

Extension to Non-parties of the Consolidated Collective Agreement in terms of Sec 32(2) of the LRA

Areas

Area A

35. Public Holidays

Purchase

35.1	An Employee shall not work on a Public holiday unless both Employer and Employee have consented thereto.

35.2	Should a Public holiday fall on a day on which an Employee would ordinarily work, an Employer shall pay:

35.2.1

to an Employee who does not work on the Public holiday, at least the remuneration or Basic salary or wages that the Employee would ordinarily have received for a normal working day;

35.2.2

an Employee who does work on the Public holiday at least double the amount referred to in clause 35.2.1; or

35.2.3

if it is greater, the amount referred to in clause 35.2.1 plus the amount earned by the Employee for the time worked on that day.

35.3	If an Employee works on a Public holiday being a day that the Employee would not ordinarily work, the Employer shall pay that Employee an amount equal to:

35.3.1

the Employees' ordinary daily remuneration or Basic salary or wage; plus

35.3.2

the amount earned by the Employee for the work performed that day, whether calculated by reference to time worked or by any other method.

35.4	Any payment to be made by the Employer to the Employee in terms of this clause 35, shall be made on the Employee's usual pay day.

35.5

If a shift worked by an Employee falls on both a Public holiday and an ordinary work day, the whole shift shall be deemed to have been worked on the Public holiday notwithstanding the aforesaid and should the greater portion of the shift that was worked on the ordinary work day, the whole shift shall be deemed to have been worked on the ordinary work day.

35.6	In terms of section 2(2) of the Public Holidays Act, 1994 (Act No. 36 of 1994) as amended, a Public holiday is exchangeable for any other day which is fixed by agreement or agreed to between the Employer and the Employee.