Labour Day falls on the first Monday of October in New South Wales, South Australia and the ACT, the only three jurisdictions observing the holiday on this date. 26 October 2026 carries this public holiday in those three states, with every other state and territory working through an ordinary day.
Monday 26 October 2026 is an ordinary working day for the standard Monday-to-Friday workforce and counts toward the working-day total shown above, along with the four days that follow it through to Friday, separate from the shift rosters that retail, hospitality, healthcare and emergency services run on their own patterns.
The week number shown for 26 October 2026 counts full weeks from the start of 2026, a figure used in payroll cycles, rostering and any planning done in weekly or fortnightly blocks rather than by calendar month. Businesses running fortnightly pay runs rely on this figure to track which of the two alternating pay weeks a date falls in.
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