What Happens If A Public Holiday Falls On A Saturday South Africa

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What happens if a public holiday falls on a saturday south africa. As such a significant proportion of workers do work on saturdays and they would therefore enjoy the public holiday that falls on a saturday. 21 march human rights day the bill of rights contained in the constitution is the cornerstone of democracy in south africa. A public holiday falling on a sunday does not cease to be a public holiday.

If the public holiday falls on a week day that the employee normally works then the employee is entitled to an extra day s leave. All that happens is that the following monday automatically becomes a public holiday. The judgement continued to state that in section 2 1 it was the intention of the legislature to declare the monday as a public holiday if a public holiday fell on a sunday.

Therefore if the public holiday falls on a saturday and the employee does not normally work on saturdays the employee should not be granted an extra day s leave. Should the employee not be required to work on the public holiday that falls on a day on which s he would ordinarily have worked the employee must be paid her or his ordinary wage. As the coronavirus death toll rises to above 1 400 in south africa and thousands of employees test positive for the virus across the country businesses find themselves in unchartered waters.

For employees who are not required to work on saturdays they are entitled to claim a day off or compensation in lieu for that public holiday if they are covered under the employment act.