Working New Years Day

cats.pyjamas

Hey just wondering, is this common practise? Are shops actually open New Years Day? I am working it and it just seems bizarre to me! Also I won't be getting any extra pay or it or anything...not that Id expect to from the place I work!

redbhoy1888

If you are in full time employment the standard rate is double time plus 8 hours or a paid day off in lieu if you prefer.Something def wrong if you are only getting flat rate for what is after all a public holiday.

gerrycollins

most shops are open to grab whatever sales they can.

its a bank holiday and as such you should recieve your normal bank holiday entitlement however your employer can pay you flat rate so long as they pay you the entitlement also.

markpb

[url=http://www.citizensinformation.ie/categories/employment/employment-rights-and-conditions/leave-and-holidays/public-holidays-in-ireland[/url]Citizensinformation.ie[/url] is always your friend for questions like this.

Your entitlement to public holidays is set out in the Organisation of Working Time Act 1997. Most employees are entitled to paid leave on public holidays. One exception is part-time employees who have not worked for their employer at least 40 hours in total in the 5 weeks before the public holiday.

Employees who qualify will be entitled to either the public holiday off as paid leave or one of the following alternatives:

A paid day off within a month of the public holiday
An additional day of annual leave
An additional day's pay
The nearest church holiday to the public holiday as a paid day off

Part-time employees

If you have worked for your employer at least 40 hours in the 5 weeks before the public holiday and you are due to work on a public holiday you are entitled to that day off as paid leave or one of the alternatives as listed above. If you are not required to work on that particular day you should receive one-fifth of your weekly pay instead of the actual day's leave. Even if you may never be rostered to work on a public holiday you are entitled to one-fifth of your weekly pay as compensation for the public holiday.

Corruptedmorals

Nope, it's not common at all. It might be now with all the feckers rushing to open yesterday. Last year my Dunnes was the only one in town that opened..on the Southside us, Brown Thomas and Monsoon were open. That was it. Debenhams and Clery's opened but M&S didn't or anyone else. It's dead and pointless, since we're all paid time and 3/4's ish and to open a shopping centre for one store costs a bomb. Thankfully this year they're not doing it.

You should be paid whatever you're paid for a bank holiday or even more. Paying basic pay is definitely wrong- I'm almost certain it must be more than that.

cats.pyjamas

I'm not full time...but i'm not part time either, I have never been given a contract I work 30 or more hours a week sometimes less I think this is a way of my boss not having to pay extra for bank holidays etc I have been working there for six months now, worked christmas eve and stephens day not a hint of extra pay !

Anyway no point complaining about it really since well "oh aren't ya lucky to have a job!"

Thanks for all the info !

gerrycollins

cats.pyjamas wrote: »

I'm not full time...but i'm not part time either, I have never been given a contract I work 30 or more hours a week sometimes less I think this is a way of my boss not having to pay extra for bank holidays etc I have been working there for six months now, worked christmas eve and stephens day not a hint of extra pay !

Anyway no point complaining about it really since well "oh aren't ya lucky to have a job!"

Thanks for all the info !

for christmas eve you would be entitled to nothing extra anyways and as for St. Stephens day your only extra would be a legally entitlement of bank holiday pay be it any of the above mentioned by markpb but not necessairly anything extra for the day itself.

THEDUDEINWHITE

I'm a part time employee and I've worked the 40 hours in the 5 previous weeks...I'm rostered to work New Years Day, am I entitled to it off?