Bank Holiday Hours

Whiplashy

Can your employer send you home early on a bank holiday? We get double time for bank holidays but have been informed that we will be finishing early tomorrow to reduce costs.

drunkmonkey

Yes they can. Are you full time or part time?

Whiplashy

I'm part time but I work enough hours to qualify for bank holiday entitlements and I always work 8 hours on a Monday.

tatli_lokma

Whiplashy wrote: »

I'm part time but I work enough hours to qualify for bank holiday entitlements and I always work 8 hours on a Monday.

Monday isn't a public holiday! Sunday is the public holiday. Some employers will give Monday as a day in lieu of the public holiday but they don't have to. They can give an extra day's annual leave or they can give paid time off in the next 4 weeks.

Stheno

Little Ted wrote: »

Monday isn't a public holiday! Sunday is the public holiday. Some employers will give Monday as a day in lieu of the public holiday but they don't have to. They can give an extra day's annual leave or they can give paid time off in the next 4 weeks.

Don't think you are right there LT

If a public holiday falls on a weekend day then by default the next "working" day as in the next bank working day is treated as the relevant public holiday

tatli_lokma

Stheno wrote: »

Don't think you are right there LT

If a public holiday falls on a weekend day then by default the next "working" day as in the next bank working day is treated as the relevant public holiday

Actually there is no legal entitlement to the next working day off. See here (note the section about when the public holiday falls on a weekend)
http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employment/employment_rights_and_conditions/leave_and_holidays/public_holidays_in_ireland.html

Whiplashy

I have since discovered that as pointed out above Monday wasn't a bank holiday! My employer still insists it was though. The people who actually worked on Sunday for normal pay are not impressed! I'll happily take my double pay for Monday though