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Work, holiday entitlements, overtime and JSB

  • 28-10-2010 1:27am
    #1
    CiniO
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    Hello all.
    My question might be a bit complicated.
    I work for company running only seasonal business (March to October), so I'm off work every year between November and February.
    During the season, I work full time, and quite often do overtime.
    Anyway I'm only paid 39 hours per week, and any overtime worked is written as days in lieu, which are added to my holiday entitlements.
    Since March (8 months work) I collected about 13 days statutory holiday entitlement + about 25 days extra from overtime.

    My job is almost over now, and I want to apply for Jobseekers benefit.
    Anyway I was wondering, how will they treat all these holiday entitlement.
    As my job is finished I'll get P45 and with my last payslip I'll get payment for extra 38 days (13 statutory holidays + 25 days owed in lieu).
    Does it affect my JSB claim anyhow?
    What in case if I don't finish work completely yet, but as said before get paid these 38 days extra, and be switched to part-time work for a next couple of weeks.

    Just to mention, during the year, I worked usually about between 45 - 55 hours per week. But there were few weeks, that I worked less days ( I was once gone for holidays for 8 days + few weeks I had 3 or 4 days off). It was all taken out of my days in lieu, and my statutory holiday entitlements were not touched.
    So finally now I ended having 38 days owed (13 statutory + 25 overtime), even that during the summer I took just about or even over 13 days holidays.

    Can social welfare office say now, that as I have so many days owed (including 13 days statutory holidays) so I have to use them first (by spreading over upcoming weeks) before obtaining JSB?
    Or maybe I can always explain, that I used my holidays entitlements during the season of work, and all days owed now, are from overtime I did during the summer. And just get full JSB.

    Thanks for any advice.


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