Business Refurbishment - employee pay

ReeCs94

Hi, just wondering if anybody would know what to do in this situation.

The company I work for will close for refurbishment for 5 days. They have told us that unless we have holiday hours to use then we will not be getting paid. 3 out of the 5 employees ( two hourly and one salary) do not have any holiday hours remaining.

I have contacted citizens information but they were not much help.

Surely this cannot be legal?!

OMM 0000

This explains it: http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employment/unemployment_and_redundancy/redundancy/lay_off_short_time_working_and_redundancy.html

dreamers75

Its perfectly legal, not sure why you would expect to be paid for not going to work when you know in advance there is no work to go to?

Glass fused light

dreamers75 wrote: »

Its perfectly legal, not sure why you would expect to be paid for not going to work when you know in advance there is no work to go to?

Because most people work to pay for food and other living expenditures? Most business have a long term plan when it comes to a shutdown for planned refurbishments. OP this is very poor management, this should have been announced as soon as it was scheduled and the managers assign everyone holidays for the 5 days shutdown period. Would the job be willing to advance wages with a repayment plan over a number of weeks?

ReeCs94

And how should staff pay their bills; rent, electricity, etc?
We knew about the possibility of closure but not the exact dates (it’s three days from now and found out yesterday) and had been told there would be work in another store- which is no longer an option so we will be left with both for 5 days.

OMM 0000

ReeCs94 wrote: »

And how should staff pay their bills; rent, electricity, etc?

Did you read the link I provided?