Employees & Employers

STaN

Just a couple of questions:

Are employers required to pay extra for working bank holidays - if so what is it; time and a quarter?

Do employers have to issue you your payslip within 3 days of pay day?

Are employers required to pay extra for working sundays?

What is the anual entitlement to holiday days? (Full time - working 12 months.)

If you work in a company for 6 months - they say you are on probation - are you entitled to any holiday days for that period?

Can you take these days during that 6 month period?

What is the start of the holiday year - Jan 1st?

If your work is closed over christmas - do you have to keep these days from your holidays for this break - or can you take all your days during the year? Ramifications?

laoisfan

Question1: Are employers required to pay extra for working bank holidays - if so what is it; time and a quarter?
Answer1: In respect of a public holiday, the employee is entitled to whichever of the following his/her employer determines

a) a paid day off on that day
b) a paid day off within a month of that day
c) an additional day of annual leave
d) an additional day's pay


Question2: Do employers have to issue you your payslip within 3 days of pay day?
Answer2: Hmmmm, not sure. They do have to provide you with one, however for practical reasons they could provide you with this before, on or after payday.


Question3: Are employers required to pay extra for working sundays?
Answer3: If not already included in the rate of pay, employees are entitled to supplementary payment for Sunday which will be equivalent to the closest applicable collective agreement which applies to the same or similiar employment and which provides for a Sunday premium.

The premium can be the form of
a) added payment
b) time off in lieu
c) a portion of shift premium
unsocial hours premium


Question4: What is the anual entitlement to holiday days? (Full time - working 12 months.)
Answer4: For 2000 and following,

a) 4 working weeks in a leave year in which the employee works at least 1,365 hrs (unless it is a leave year in which he or she changes employment)
b) 1/3 of a working week per calendar month that the employee works at least 117 hrs.
c) 8% of the hours an employee works in a leave year (but subject to a max. of at least 117 hrs).


Question 5: If you work in a company for 6 months - they say you are on probation - are you entitled to any holiday days for that period?
Answer5: Yes


Question6: Can you take these days during that 6 month period?
Answer6: Yes


Question 7:What is the start of the holiday year - Jan 1st?
Answer7: Yes


Question8: If your work is closed over christmas - do you have to keep these days from your holidays for this break - or can you take all your days during the year? Ramifications?
Answer8: Hmmmmm, normally if a place of employment closes over the christmas period then the employee generally uses their holidays over this period. Hmmmm, not sure with this one.


See Organisation of Working Time Act, 1997 (www.entemps.ie)

laoisfan

http://www.entemp.ie/erir/orgworktmbk.pdf

Victor

Originally posted by STaN
If your work is closed over christmas - do you have to keep these days from your holidays for this break - or can you take all your days during the year?

If your place of work closes for say 5 days over Christmas, Bank Holidays (25,26,1) are treated as such and the remaining days are taken out of your ordinary annual holidays.

If your place of work closes for the entire month of December, it might be considered excessive for an employee to use all their holidays then.

Employers are allowed holiday embargoes during their busy season.