{"id":9960,"date":"2024-05-27T11:58:31","date_gmt":"2024-05-26T23:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=9960"},"modified":"2024-05-27T11:58:31","modified_gmt":"2024-05-26T23:58:31","slug":"kings-birthday-whats-open-whats-not-and-when-you-have-to-pay-a-surcharge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=9960","title":{"rendered":"King’s Birthday: What’s open, what’s not, and when you have to pay a surcharge"},"content":{"rendered":"

For more than 70 years, the first Monday of June was known as Queen’s Birthday. This year, New Zealand will be celebrating the King’s Birthday on\u00a0Monday 3 June<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Although the day goes by a different name, the rules are much the same. Just like the Queen’s Birthday, the public holiday is a non-working day.<\/p>\n

That means if you’re working on the day (as regularly rostered), you’re entitled to time-and-a-half pay and an alternative day off.<\/p>\n

What’s open?<\/h3>\n

Trading restrictions don’t apply to King’s Birthday in the way they would for Easter holidays, Christmas, or the first half of Anzac Day.<\/p>\n

Shops, restaurants, cafes and other hospitality and retail venues will be open as usual, but they can choose to close if they wish – so it pays to check opening hours beforehand.<\/p>\n

Supermarkets and malls will be open too, but some may operate with shorter hours.<\/p>\n

Surcharges<\/h3>\n

Public holidays are an expensive day to be a business and King’s Birthday is no different.<\/p>\n

Hospitality businesses in particular may add a 15 percent surcharge to their services – this is usually to cover the costs of paying employees time-and-a-half.<\/p>\n

If a business does charge a surcharge, they must have clear signage communicating this to the customer.<\/p>\n

This can be done with the display of signs detailing the surcharge, a message on the business’s website, or by verbally letting the customer know at the time of purchase or before they order.<\/p>\n

If customers believe they have been misled about a surcharge, they can complain to the Commerce Commission.<\/p>\n

Why do we celebrate the King’s Birthday in June?<\/h3>\n

Although King Charles III’s birthday falls later in the year, New Zealand still marks the monarch’s birthday in June.<\/p>\n

King Charles will officially celebrate his 76th birthday on 14 November, but now that he has taken the throne, he receives the privilege of celebrating his birthday twice every year.<\/p>\n

It was the same with Queen Elizabeth, whose real birthday was on 21 April.<\/p>\n

The reason? Britain’s winter weather.<\/p>\n

It’s traditional for British monarchs who are not born in summer to celebrate twice, with a second official birthday. Once on their actual date of birth, and then later in the British summer with a grand parade.<\/p>\n

The tradition was started by George II in 1748, who also had a November birthday, and deemed it too cold for a celebratory parade.<\/p>\n

Source: RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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