He said employees asked to work tomorrow could lodge complaints with the Labour Department if their employers failed to pay them public holiday rates.
"Tomorrow (Dec 31) has been declared a public holiday. It is within employees' rights to be paid public holiday rates," he told reporters here today.
Yesterday, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak had announced tomorrow as a public holiday following the national football team winning the AFF Suzuki Cup in Jakarta, ending a 14-year wait to lift the Cup.
Earlier, Subramaniam had witnessed T. Thurgashree, four, from Bukit Mertajam, do 1,111 sit ups in 32 minutes and 21 seconds to enter the Malaysian Book of Records (MBR).
Also entering the MBR was T. Logassree, 8, who succeeded in lifting steel bars and plates weighting 21kg with just her little fingers
