“But how will we pay minimum wage employees to work over Easter if we need to pay them penalties?!?!”

Maybe, and hear me out, a ‘Public Holiday’ should allow the public, your employees, to take a holiday? I remember a time when long weekends were actually a holiday for most people. Yeah, you couldn’t go buy milk from Coles, but you planned ahead like an adult. Now if I want to I can do a weekly shop, get my haircut, go to a cafe, shop for a new outfit, see a movie, and go out for dinner. Why do the people who work the lowest pay g jobs deserve to lose their weekends to the rest of us can consume more shit?

I approve of WA aligning its holidays with the eastern states. It is likely to make business easier for companies that operate or trade interstate.

I'd really hoped we for one to be put in the July school holidays.

Oh well can't complain about a extra one in November. The second half of the year up to Christmas was always lacking with just the one.