Paydays fall on Christmas day and New Year Day

Hi, we encountered this issue in 2023.

I loaded pays on Monday (Christmas Day, 25 Dec), and bank transfer to employees Tuesdays (Boxing Day, 26 Dec). I still entered my usual week ending date of Friday 22 Dec, and made the payment date Friday 22 Dec, and paid staff early that week on Friday 22 Dec (rather than Boxing Day Tuesday). Everything worked fine with those dates.

The same scenario occurred for us the year before, in 2022. I processed exactly the same as above.

I'm not based in NZ, but do banks transfer 7 days per week, even weekends and public holiday? Thats cool.

In AU, we pay it safe and process on regular working days (maybe because we are using AU bank to pay NZ staff...).

Regard the "rule":

www.employment.govt.nz/pay-and-hours/pay-and-wages/pay-periods-and-paydays

In some situations, payday might move to a different day. For example:

• payday is usually the 15th of the month, but this month the 15th is a Sunday
• payday falls on a public holiday.

If employees are going to be paid on a different day to usual, the employer should tell them when they will be paid:

• when the employee first starts work — for example, by including a process for what happens when payday moves in the employment agreement, or
• at the time, if the change to payday was unexpected.