Public-holiday planning
- Easter, ANZAC Day and the King’s Birthday weekend are recurring opportunities.
- Matariki adds another movable public holiday that can improve a leave plan.
- Provincial anniversary days may matter depending on where you work.
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Employees become entitled to at least four weeks of paid annual holidays after 12 months of continuous employment. New legislation is due to replace the current Holidays Act in 2028.
Statutory paid annual leave4 weeks after 12 monthsAnnual-leave context
Comparable 5-day-week equivalent20 daysNormalized comparison value; see method below.
Official sourceVerifiedEmployment New Zealand
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Legal basis and comparison method
Employees become entitled to at least four weeks of paid annual holidays after 12 months of continuous employment. New legislation is due to replace the current Holidays Act in 2028.
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.
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This is a planning aid, not employment-law advice. Entitlement can depend on tenure, work pattern, sector, contract, collective agreement and regional law.
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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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