I’m pleased to read the Government is reviewing Queensland’s productivity-sapping cluster of public holidays in the first half of the year:

Queen’s Birthday public holiday could be moved to later in year under controversial review of Qld public holiday system

It is the timing of Labour Day that is the problem, however, especially if there is a late Easter. The Easter-Anzac Day-Labour Day combination can then create an almost 10 day holiday, with minimal expenditure of annual leave, for those workers savvy enough to book leave early enough. So a number of organisations – it seems particularly prevalent among Government agencies – become difficult to deal with over this period, because so many people are away. Instead of moving the Queen’s Birthday holiday, we should move Labour Day to early October, so it lines up with Labour Day in NSW.