Public Holidays as set out in the Holidays Act, and where the Employer does not have the ability to require the employee to work on a public holiday

The Employee shall be entitled to 11 public holidays per year, in addition to annual leave. These days shall be those specified in the Holidays Act. Where the day in question would otherwise be a working day for the Employee, the Employee shall be entitled to pay on that holiday.

The Employer may ask the Employee to work on a public holiday, but the Employee may at their discretion decline to work on that day. Where such a day is worked, the Employee shall be paid (as detailed in the 'Payment for work on a public holiday' clause of this agreement) and shall, where the day worked would otherwise have been a working day, also receive an alternative paid holiday of one day at a later date, the timing of which is to be determined by agreement between the Employer and the Employee, or in the absence of agreement according to the Holidays Act.