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Short term summer contract and time off

  • 14-04-2008 7:30am
    #1
    pow wow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,288 ✭✭✭


    I've accepted a temp job with the civil service again this summer and opted for the 3 month contract (including one week holiday). A week after I start my brother is getting married abroad and I have to go (something along the lines of my mother disowning me if I don't when I brought it up...:rolleyes:) and the flights are only once a week so I would have to take the whole week of my second week off.

    The department I worked for last year were fine with you taking the 5 days together but I know when I applied this year there was something in the screening about being unavailable for a week or more. Do you think I should tell them now and give them a heads up (and risk them telling me I can't have it so I have to give up the job) or just arrive in June and then act surprised when my brother announces a shotgun wedding the week after?!

    I think it's taking the p1ss a bit but my family are being really ar$ey about the prospect of me not going and I can't afford not to work for the Summer.


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  • #2
    cronos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,719 ✭✭✭cronos


    I would tell them myself. Make sure you tell them that this will be the only holidays you take for the summer and that its unavoidable as its a wedding.


  • #3
    She Devil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,032 ✭✭✭She Devil


    I have that contract to, i have a wedding the following friday i hope i'll get it off :eek:


  • #4
    Tragedy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,056 ✭✭✭Tragedy


    Tell them, IME dumping it on them at the last moment always ends badly.

    PS: I thought civil service temps get 1/7th time worked in time off? I know I do in the HSE.


  • #5
    pow wow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,288 ✭✭✭pow wow


    Tragedy wrote: »
    Tell them, IME dumping it on them at the last moment always ends badly.

    PS: I thought civil service temps get 1/7th time worked in time off? I know I do in the HSE.

    I had 4 days on a 10 week contract last year, 5 days on a 13 week contract this time around. :(


  • #6
    Tragedy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,056 ✭✭✭Tragedy


    Are you on a contract with an agency or direct with the Civil Service?


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  • #7
    pow wow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,288 ✭✭✭pow wow


    Direct with the civil service both times. It wasn't just me, everyone had the same contract :cool:


  • #8
    Tragedy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,056 ✭✭✭Tragedy


    I'll ask my sis (human resources in the civil service) and see what she says, but as far as I know temp contract workers should get the same pay/hours/holidays on a pro-rata basis. Only agency workers are immune because their contract is with an agency.


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