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Can an employee swap a public holiday for another day?

Q: Would it be lawful to allow our employees to substitute a gazetted public holiday to observe a day of faith of their choice? For example, swapping Christmas Day (25 December) for Eid (~13 May), so they would work on Christmas Day but have a paid day’s leave on the day Eid is celebrated.

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