However, for employers, an additional public holiday means extra costs and added resourcing considerations.
On resourcing, businesses would have assumed they would have had people at work on the day or even on official annual leave. Employers now need to look at their work plans and how to manage resources around it. We need your consent to load this rte-player contentWe use rte-player to manage extra content that can set cookies on your device and collect data about your activity. Please review their details and accept them to load the content.Manage Preferences
An additional public holiday is an administrative headache for people working in HR and Payroll, but many will have systems already in place.