VIC:No public holiday rates this Christmas

AAP General News (Australia)
12-22-2011
VIC:No public holiday rates this Christmas

Victorians who have to work on Christmas Day this year will miss out on public holiday rates.

The ACTU says Victoria is the only state not to have gazetted Christmas Day as a public
holiday and is calling Premier TED BAILLIEU the grinch who stole Christmas.

ACTU president GED KEARNEY is calling for a uniform approach in all states and territories
to gazette Christmas Day as a public holiday, even when it falls on weekends, as it has
the last two years.

But the government says the Public Holidays Act 1993 means that when the 25 December
falls on a weekend, a substitute but not an additional public holiday is appointed.

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KEYWORD: XMAS VIC (MELBOURNE)

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