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holidays please

  • 01-12-2010 1:17pm
    #1
    gillian1983
    Closed Accounts Posts: 58 ✭✭


    just enquiring about christmas holiday day entitlements.
    if you're in an office job, what days off are u entitled to?
    xmas day falls on a sat, does this mean you're expected to work xmas eve and then mon 27th again? so no days off for xmas unless u take them off?


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  • #2
    flinty34
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29 ✭flinty34


    I believe Mon 27th and Tues 28th will be in lieu of Xmas day and Stephen's Day. Xmas eve is regular working day


  • #3
    Eoin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,263 ✭✭✭✭Eoin


    From the working time act - you can read the PDF version here:
    The Organisation of Working Time Act provides the
    following nine public holidays:

    a) Christmas Day,
    b) St. Stephen’s Day,
    c) St. Patrick’s Day,
    d) Easter Monday, the first Monday in May, the first Monday in June and the first Monday in August,
    e) the last Monday in October,
    f) the 1st of January.

    In respect of each public holiday, an employee is entitled to
    either:
    (a) a paid day off on the holiday or

    (b) a paid day off within a month or

    (c) an extra day’s annual leave or

    (d) an extra day’s pay

    as the employer may decide.

    If the public holiday falls on a day on which the employee normally works, the employee is entitled to a paid day off for the day.

    If 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 day or to either (b) or (c) above as the employer may decide.

    If the employee is asked to work on the public holiday, the employee is entitled to (b) (c) or (d) above as the employer may decide.

    There is no service requirement in respect of public holidays for whole time employees. Part time employees qualify for public holidays entitlement provided they have worked at least 40 hours during the five weeks ending on the day before a public holiday.

    (Note this Act refers to “public holidays” not “bank holidays”. Not every official bank holiday is a public holiday though in practice most of them coincide).

    gillian1983 - please don't use "textspeak".


  • #4
    Scambuster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 258 ✭✭Scambuster


    You're not entitled to any days off. If you're employer wants you to work christmas day then you might have to.


  • #5
    dudara
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,518 ✭✭✭✭dudara


    You are entitled to have the 9 public holidays every year. If you have to work those days, then your employer must compensate you correctly.

    There are no set rules for what happens when those days fall on a weekend. Generally, the unwritten rule is that you get the following Monday off, i.e. in this case, Christmas Day and St. Stephen's Day are on a Sat & Sun respectively. Therefore a lot of employers will give people the following Mon and Tues off in lieu. However, this is not set in stone and varies from workplace to workplace. The only caveat is that you must get equivalent days off or else be compensated.


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