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Questions re working days and hols,anyone?

  • 12-06-2007 12:34pm
    #1
    curiousgeorge19
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10 ✭


    Curious to know what are the laws when it comes to
    when you work your working week. My occupation
    involves a lot of weekend work for which I get time in
    lieu during a couple of week days.
    My question is can an employer expect you to work 40
    hours spread over six days, or do those 40 hours have
    to be confined to five working days?
    Is there a requirement that an employee gets his or
    her two days off a week next to one another? Or can
    the employer put those off days at different ends of
    the week?
    Also what is peoples attitude to holidays and when
    they can be taken?
    Do people tend to take every day owed to them, ie if
    you work six days or five and a half days in a working
    week would you make sure to make take that day back
    later in the year?
    Interested to get other peoples opinion on this as in
    the workplace in which i work people work very hard
    for fairly average pay, and a few friends reckon the
    hours i work and days of the week which I work are made.


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  • #2
    Eoin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,263 ✭✭✭✭Eoin


    I'd say www.citizensinformation.ie will answer some of your questions.

    I tend to work a bit more than the 37.5 hours specified in my contract, as a lot of IT people do. However, they are pretty flexible should I need time off and with regards to coming in late / leaving late, so it all balances out. As I am in the software development side, my workload tends to increase coming up to a deployment, so it is more likely that I will put in longer hours for several weeks at a time, and not take a bit of time off until that's all over.


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