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Joe Duffy's topic today - something about new law for working sundays??

  • 10-10-2008 3:59pm
    #1
    MILF
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 375 ✭✭


    Hi all,

    Can anyone tell me what it was that Joe Duffy was talking about today about a new law some Body wanted to bring in for restaurants/people working in the hospitality sector for them to get paid double time on a Sunday?

    I'm trying to remember the Body that they were talking about as I wanted to research more about it.

    Thanks!!


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  • #2
    Wertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,909 ✭✭✭✭Wertz


    It's not a new law.
    The law is in fact antiquated (1949 I think?)....as someone who worked as a part timer in the bar/restaurant trade some years back, I can tell you neither I nor anyone I worked with (part time) got double rate on a sunday....nor should they have. In places where a weekend trade is the majority of the business, it's completely unfair to burden employers with having to pay these rates.
    I can undertsand them being enforced if it's people who are after working their standard 39 hr week and then asked to work sunday, but when a part timer, mainly taken on for the busier w/e period is commanding double rates, then there's something seriously wrong...I find it laughable that yet another public enforcement body has been set up to deal with such laws...this country is going to be regulated in to the ground. Post catholic Ireland is anything but in reality...

    I'm sorry OP for the off-topicness and mini-rant, I can't recall the name of the body you're enquiring after, but from what I can recall they had what amounted to a warrant card of sorts, saying that anything spoken to them could be later used as evidence in any prosecution taken.


  • #3
    ronbyrne2005
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,494 ✭✭✭ronbyrne2005


    http://www.employmentrights.ie/en/

    Ridiculous alrite. Could'nt beleive the people on saying that sunday is a "day of rest". Forcing the standard christian day of rest on the rest of us is not on in a modern secular society.


  • #4
    pow wow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,288 ✭✭✭pow wow


    MILF wrote: »
    Hi all,

    Can anyone tell me what it was that Joe Duffy was talking about today about a new law some Body wanted to bring in for restaurants/people working in the hospitality sector for them to get paid double time on a Sunday?

    I'm trying to remember the Body that they were talking about as I wanted to research more about it.

    Thanks!!

    NERA. The poster before me put a link to it.


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