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Penalty rates under the Building and Construction General Onsite Award
Penalty rates apply to all work performed on:
- Saturdays
- Sundays; and
- Public holidays
Work performed on these days is considered to be time worked outside of ordinary hours, and a higher rate of pay applies to employees who are required to work on these days.
Full-time and part-time employees who are required to work on public holidays or substituted days are entitled to be paid at 250% of their ordinary hourly rate.
Casual employees who are required to work on public holidays are entitled to be paid at 275% of their ordinary hourly rate.
Employees need to be paid for a minimum of 4 hours work when required to work on a public holiday. This applies even if the employee has finished all duties before the 4 hour minimum engagement period has been met.
In addition to Good Friday and Easter Monday, Easter Saturday and Easter Sunday may be classed as public holidays depending on your state.
| State / Territory | Good Friday | Easter Saturday | Easter Sunday | Easter Monday |
| ACT | Public holiday | Public holiday | Public holiday | Public holiday |
| NSW | Public holiday | Public holiday | ||
| NT | Public holiday | Public holiday | ||
| QLD | Public holiday | Public holiday | ||
| SA | Public holiday | |||
| TAS | ||||
| VIC | Public holiday | Public holiday | ||
| WA | Public holiday |
Employees continue to accrue the following entitlements on public holidays, regardless of if they work on site for the day:
- Annual leave
- Sick/carer’s leave
- Rostered Days Off
Yes.
Full-time and part-time employees are entitled to their ordinary hourly rate of pay for any day they would have worked that falls on a public holiday.
For example, if a part time employee usually works on a Monday and the Monday is a public holiday and your employee does not work that day your employee is entitled to be paid for that day. If however, a public holiday falls on a day a part time employee does not usually work, they are not entitled to be paid for that day.
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