Bank holidays

dcukhunter

The job I am in has not given me any days off for bank holidays or pay (all of which I have to work). I know I'm owed these and I am going to claim for them but because I work nights only 6 hrs of my shift would be on a bank holiday. So would I be owed just 6hrs or a full day for each. I have tried looking at the citizens advice website but cant see anything for it. Any help much appreciated.

AARRRGH

You would be owed 6 hours.

Question: are you some kind of support/customer service person who deals with calls from people outside Ireland? If so, do you get paid for the bank holidays in the countries you support?

dcukhunter

Thanks for that. I work security mainly night work.

brightspark

If you work a 40 hour week then you are entitled to 8 hours pay for the holiday.

As you are effectively working the public holiday (that is doing the same hours as every other week) you should be entitled to a day off in lieu

The place to look is the organisation of working time act
Guide here
http://www.employmentrights.ie/en/media/Holidays%20Txt.pdf

Full Act here
http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/1997/en/act/pub/0020/index.html

From Guide

Pay for a Public Holiday
3.5 Where the public holiday falls on a day on which the employee
normally works, the employee is entitled to a day’s pay for the
public holiday.
Where the public holiday falls on a day on which the employee does
not normally work, the employee is entitled to one fifth of his/her
normal weekly wage for the public holiday.
Where the employee is required to work on the public holiday, the
employee is entitled to an additional day’s pay for the public holiday
(or to a paid day off within a month of the public holiday or to an
additional day of annual leave).
If the employee ceases to be employed during the week ending on
the day before a public holiday, having worked during the 4 weeks
preceding that week, he/she is entitled to receive pay for the public
holiday.

dcukhunter

Thanks brightspark I wasnt fully sure if it was just the 6hrs of full day I was due. Wanted to get it straight before I talk to them about it.