Public holidays run from midnight to midnight.

If you work shifts that cross over 2 days, you can:

• work your normal shift, be paid time and a half for the hours that fall on the public holiday and get another full day of paid leave to take later, or
• ask your employer to transfer the public holiday to cover your entire shift.

If you transfer the holiday:

• any other hours you work on the actual public holiday (outside of the agreed shift) won't be paid at public holiday rates
• if you work the shift you've transferred the holiday to, you'll be entitled to time and a half for the whole shift and an alternative paid day off to take later.

Agreements to transfer public holidays have to be in writing.