**Easter Saturday is not a public holiday uniformly across Australia.**

Its status as a public holiday varies between jurisdictions and is not the same for all employees nationally. Public holidays are declared at the state and territory level, so whether 4 April 2026 (the Saturday between Good Friday on 3 April and Easter Sunday on 5 April) is a public holiday for any given employee turns on:

- the jurisdiction in which the employee works (or, in limited cases, is based for employment purposes);
- the terms of any applicable modern award, enterprise agreement, or contract; and
- any specific industry or occupational exemptions or substitutions that may exist in that jurisdiction.

You must therefore check the public holiday schedule for each relevant state or territory rather than applying a single national rule.