p45 and holiday pay

riff_man79

Hi all,

i worked part time with a company for 6 months then went full time. I ended up being forced to quit as they reduced my hours and from day to day i never knew if i was working the next day or not. Very frustrating and illegal but thats not what im getting into here. I ended up quitting.

I have 2 questions. It seems to me that i am due some sort of holiday pay for my part time work for 6 months. 8% of all hours worked. But the company are refusing to pay me this. I contacted NERA and they said i have a case. After some contact with the company they said they have been "advised" not to pay me the the holiday money. Is there a reason i am missing as to why they wouldn't pay me the holiday money?

Second question is i recieved my P45 but its only dated form 1st Janurary this year. I thought a P45 should cover my whole employment i.e. the last year. Is this right? or are they trying to pull something ending in me not receiving my holiday pay? They treated me terrible and i did work pretty much full-time hours while i was part time so its a few quid, but its more the fact that the way they are going about it. Does this sound wrong to anyone or am i missing something?

Cheers
Brian

dudara

A P45 should cover the entire period of your employment.

P45 form is a statement from your employer that contains important information. For example, it states the amount of pay you received to date, the amount of tax and social insurance (PRSI) you paid to date, the name of your last employer, etc.

Citizen's Information

You are entitled to holidays, either in the form of paid days off, or money. If you did not take any paid days off then you are entitled to 8% holiday pay, to be added to your pay cheque.

There are three different ways of calculating your annual leave entitlement:

• Based on the employee's working hours during what is called the leave year, which runs from April to March. An employee who has worked at least 1,365 hours in the leave year (that is, an average working week of 26.25 hours) is entitled to the maximum of four weeks' annual leave. Many employers use the calendar year (January-December) instead of the official leave year to calculate entitlement
• By allowing 1/3 of a working week for each calendar month in which the employee has worked at least 117 hours
• 8% of the hours worked in the leave year, subject to a maximum of 4 weeks

Citizen's Information

I would contact NERA and ask them how to proceed. Gather up all your payslips and all proof that you have of the hours worked and monies earned.

Also, since they are not issuing the correct P45, I would contact the Revenue, if you are feeling a little vindictive. The Revenue do not look kindly on messing about with P45s.

poufie

did u work in a hotel by any chance? sounds like where i work!!! get urself a gud solicitor pronto:D