If a contract says, public holiday long weekend, how should it be applied? 


  • Usually a long weekend would be Sat/Sun/MON, if Public Holiday (PH) is on the Monday
  •  If PH is a Friday then it would be  FRI/SAT/Sun


However, should the PH fall between Tuesdayto Thursday, it will remain as is. These days doesn't move. 

In AU, we define our weekend dates as Sat/Sun, so if PH is either a Mon or Fri we can turn it into a long weekend.


(Thus, a surchage/mininimum nights/stricter cxl policy, may be appplicable to the whole long weekend, depending on the contract) 



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