The way I see it - I get paid to work for 365 days a year - minus weekends and public holidays.
I do not get paid to work 366 days a year!
Those dang bosses are stealing an extra day of work off me every four years!
It doesn't cost them anything to give me that day off and I bloody well deserve it.
That's how I see it anyway.
Anyone else?
Should Leap Day Be a Public Holiday?
BigTed on 25/02/2016 - 00:41
Poll Options
- 61Leap Day should be a public holiday
- 12Leap Day should not be a public holiday
- 13Don't care
- 10Bikies
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My monthly pay is 1/12th my annual salary. I am very much working for free on the 29th.
I'm not super upset, but I think it is actually a pretty good idea.You'd be very disadvantaged if you started on Feb 29th and worked 4 years and 1 day.
So you get paid exactly the same every month regardless to the number of days, so February would normally be a good month for $$ per day? Interesting
Of course! If you are on salary, its pretty much 1/12 of annual salary regardless of month.
What does it say in your contract? A year consists of either 365 or 366 days. You would only be working for free on leap day if your contract specifically mentions annual salary is based on a 365 day year.
Interestingly, my contract says I am paid an annual salary based on a minimum work period of 37.5 hrs per week. It doesn't define what a year is. It does suggest I don't have any expectation for overtime payments, which is what I expect HR would say if I questioned it.
My pay slip says I get paid for 162.5 hours each month regardless of the number of days in that month or actual hours I worked. It does break those hours down by type (e.g. ordinary, annual leave, sick leave, public holiday).
I don't think there is any particular reason why a leap day should be a public holiday. Public Holidays should bear some significance to the nation, state or city that it is effective upon, and declaring days like leap days a public holiday will only serve as a precedent for others looking to squeeze public holidays out of days with little or no significance.
Further, it would also make it necessary in declaring leap days as public holidays, for all annual events to be accordingly adjusted. Payments such as insurance, car registration, magazine/paper subscriptions, student fees and salaries (to only name a few) would need to be overhauled to compensate for the new public holiday.
We'll do just fine without it.
an extra day of car insurance … so what about $1? I would pay $1 to take a day off work
Did you not grow up celebrating leap day? The day Leap Day William emerges from the Mariana Trench to trade children's tears for candy.
Make sure to wear the traditional colours of yellow and blue on leap day.
Instead of public holiday, think there should be special event to help the leap year 29th babies to celebrate on their real birthday. Happy Birthday!!!!
Should we give them 4x the presents?
No presents at all. Ever.
That sounds good !
If it means that much, you could resign COB on 28th Feb and ask (beg) for your job back on the morning of 1st Match.
morning of 1st Match.
Leap year charity cricket match.Great idea.The 29ers v rest.
I suppose the argument is whether fixed wages should be normalised to an hourly rate when a contract is signed.
I believe this year the total number of days worked doesn't actually change (since December 31 becomes a Saturday).
But what if that leap day falls on a weekend? Some people work, most don't. What then?
I swear I am going to be sitting at work on Monday feeling like a total schmuck!
Working for free - bah!Chuck a sickie if you're worried about it.
At my work we have an issue every 11 years where there are 27 fortnights in a year rather than 26. In this year everyone makes 1/26th more money as they are paid one more time. I am on a 'salary' but paid fortnightly. Being paid monthly sounds like BS, it should at least be twentyeightnightly.
2015/16 is one of those years and my work are withholding extra tax because of it.
I reckon it should be a public holiday. But just for those born on leap day…….like me.
Leap Day William
i get paid per fortnight so doesnt matter to me or else just take a sicky if you really need it
Your annualised salary is based on a year - a year is 365.25 days on average. If you expect to be paid an extra day this year, then you should expect to get paid less on each non-leap year.
Hear hear. Can't actually believe we're having this conversation really. Sign of the times I guess. And we get upset when we get in foreigners on 487 Visas, who are actually overjoyed to be working here in Australia. Here we are complaining about a day every 4 years that is, in fact still technically a full year - as you say a year is actually 365.25 days.
Bit sad, but as guess as some posts above state, you could always chuck the good old Ozzie sicky. That seems pretty accepted nowadays unfortunately. You're all happy for someone to pay you when you're not actually working anyway.
Anyway each to their own but I'm thoroughly in the "don't be so lazy" camp.
Slow OzB day is it? What's the big deal? If you are getting paid weekly or biweekly, you are paid by the day. Even monthly pay will be calculated pro rata. Length of year doesn't come into it.