Good Friday

Kinetic^

Can somebody inform me as to what the law in relation to this day as far a day off is concerned.

I'm being forced to take it from my holidays. :mad:

copacetic

Afaik it's just a normal day as far as the law is concerned. Some companies give it as an extra days hols, some don't. I have it now, didn't in my last place.

Haven't heard of people being forced to take it out of their own allocation of holidays though.

petes

Employers discretion. Taken from our holidays too.

Kinetic^

Tis fcuking ghey!!! If they want to close the office then they can do it at their own expense.:rolleyes:

Nody

Kenny 5 wrote:

Tis fcuking ghey!!! If they want to close the office then they can do it at their own expense.:rolleyes:

The company has the right to assign you holidays as they see fit taking into account your social life and a few other parameters when doing so.

stipey

The place I work closes on Good Friday and Christmas Eve. We have to take them from our holidays.... but they give us 2 extra days holidays per year.

So I'm entitled to 25 days annual leave, but I get 27 days so I can take the 2 "Company Days".

We are a consultancy so while our offices close for the 2 days not everybody gets to take them - it depends on the client you are working with and what project you are on - by giving us 2 extra days it means that if you have to work Good Friday or Christmas Eve you get to take the days at some other stage and everybody gets the same.

Kinetic^

Nody wrote:

The company has the right to assign you holidays as they see fit taking into account your social life and a few other parameters when doing so.

Alright cool. Tis still ghey though. I only get 20 a year.:rolleyes: Ah well, only another 20 months to go.

Wishbone Ash

stipey wrote:

So I'm entitled to 25 days annual leave, but I get 27 days so I can take the 2 "Company Days"

You have 7 extra days then.

fergusm76

Just as a reference, Good Friday is a Bank Holiday, but not a Public Holiday

Kinetic^

Good Friday is not a public holiday. While some schools and businesses close on that day, you have no automatic entitlement to time off work on that day.

Taken from here

youcancallmeal

My kind employer has seen fit to give us the day off, paid
I only changed jobs recently though and my previous employer would of had me in slaving away not a bother.

Kinetic^

Honestly, given the option this year I would take it off but there's quite a lot of people in the company that wouldn't take it off as it's coming out of annual leave.

Kinetic^

Check it out. Basically means nothing will change. Ghey!!!

In accordance with the Organisation of Working Time Act, 1997 there are
nine public holidays in the year. These are New Years Day - St Patrick's
Day - Easter Monday - First Monday in May - First Monday in June - First
Monday in August - Last Monday in October - Christmas Day - St Stephen's
Day. Good Friday is not a public holiday.

Full time employees have an immediate entitlement to benefit from the
public holiday i.e. from the commencement of employment. Part time workers
are entitled to benefit from the public holiday if the employee works a
total of 40 hours over the five week period immediately preceding the
public holiday.

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 days pay

If the public holiday falls on a day on which the employee normally works,
then the employee is entitled to either a paid day off, an additional days
pay, a paid day off within a month of the date, or an additional day of
paid annual leave for the public holiday.

If the public holiday falls on a day on which the employee does not
normally work, then the employee is entitled to one fifth of his/her normal
weekly wage for the day.

If the employee is asked to work on the public holiday, then he/she is
entitled to either an additional day's pay for the day, or to a paid day
within a month of the day, or to an additional day of paid annual leave.


If you have any further queries please do not hesitate to contact this Unit
at the numbers below.

Regards

Joe Soap
Employment Rights Information Unit
Department of Enterprise Trade & Employment

Wishbone Ash

Just to add to the confusion, we work on an April to March year. That means that occasionally we have ten bank holidays and sometimes eight. Easter Monday can fall twice within the same work year.

dudara

I'm in the same boat as the OP, our offices will be closed and we have to take it from our annual leave allocation. However, depending on our current client assignment, we might have to work it regardless.

gerrycollins

most employers will have it in your contract that the day is taken as a days holidays if your office is closed,however in an environment where the "office" ie shop etc is open you can work the day and get another day off in lieu or dont work the day and take it from your holidays.

eg i get 20 days hols a year
when i work good friday i get one more
when i dont work good friday i get the day paid but no more extra hols

this is in my contract

Aedh Baclamh

Pity that it's still considered a bank holiday in this day and age. I thought the country would get out of that whole lark.

the_syco

Aedh Baclamh wrote:

Pity that it's still considered a bank holiday in this day and age. I thought the country would get out of that whole lark.

According to the train times, Good Friday wasn't a Bank Holiday, but Saint Paddy's day was.