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Oceania · Verified annual-leave guide

🇦🇺Australia

Full-time and part-time employees covered by the national system receive four weeks of paid annual leave; some shiftworkers receive more.

Statutory paid annual leave4 weeks (20 days for a 5-day worker)Annual-leave context
Comparable 5-day-week equivalent20 daysNormalized comparison value; see method below.
Official sourceVerifiedFair Work Ombudsman
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How to make your leave go further

Public-holiday planning

  • Use the state/territory selector: public-holiday calendars differ materially across Australia.
  • Easter is a major opportunity because Good Friday and Easter Monday sit around the weekend.
  • ANZAC Day, Christmas/Boxing Day and state-specific holidays can create additional clusters.

Legal basis and comparison method

Full-time and part-time employees covered by the national system receive four weeks of paid annual leave; some shiftworkers receive more.

Regional and calendar caveats

The planner combines weekends with supported public-holiday data and can use first-level regional calendars where the dataset provides them. Employer-specific, municipal and sector-specific days can still differ.

Official employment source: Fair Work Ombudsman. Open official guidance ↗

This is a planning aid, not employment-law advice. Entitlement can depend on tenure, work pattern, sector, contract, collective agreement and regional law.

Planner

The planner combines weekends with supported public-holiday data and can use first-level regional calendars where the dataset provides them. Employer-specific, municipal and sector-specific days can still differ.

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