Public holiday pay entitlement is calculated by taking all regular wages earned in the four weeks before the work week that has the public holiday plus all vacation pay payable in the four weeks before the work week that has the public holiday, divided by what?

Public holiday pay entitlement is calculated by taking all regular wages earned in the four weeks before the work week that has the public holiday plus all vacation pay payable in the four weeks before the work week that has the public holiday, divided by what?

• A. 20
• B. 4
• C. 10
• D. 30

Answer: (A)

The key idea is to convert recent earnings into an ordinary daily rate to determine pay for a public holiday. You combine all regular wages and vacation pay earned in the four weeks before the holiday, then spread that total over the number of workdays in those four weeks. With a standard five-day workweek, four weeks contain 20 workdays, so you divide by 20 to get the daily rate used for the holiday pay. The other numbers don’t represent the number of workdays in four weeks, so they wouldn’t produce the correct daily average. If someone normally works fewer or more days per week, you’d use the actual number of days they would have worked in those four weeks, up to 20.

The key idea is to convert recent earnings into an ordinary daily rate to determine pay for a public holiday. You combine all regular wages and vacation pay earned in the four weeks before the holiday, then spread that total over the number of workdays in those four weeks. With a standard five-day workweek, four weeks contain 20 workdays, so you divide by 20 to get the daily rate used for the holiday pay. The other numbers don’t represent the number of workdays in four weeks, so they wouldn’t produce the correct daily average. If someone normally works fewer or more days per week, you’d use the actual number of days they would have worked in those four weeks, up to 20.