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"Full-time employment" definition

  • 22-03-2011 6:55pm
    #1
    AndyTheDude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 276 ✭✭


    Hi @ll,

    I'm curious what "full time employment" really means in legal terms in Ireland. I've done my research on the net and couldn't find proper definition of the term. Is there a minimum amount of worked hours (be it daily/weekly/monthly) for a job to be qualified as "full time" job?

    thx in advance


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  • #2
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,579 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    It will depend on the context. It can vary from 20-39 hours.


  • #3
    Kosseegan
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 987 ✭✭✭Kosseegan


    Victor wrote: »
    It will depend on the context. It can vary from 20-39 hours.


    I did'n know full time employment was capped at 39 hours. A person working 40 hours aweek is not in full time employment?


  • #4
    AndyTheDude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 276 ✭✭AndyTheDude


    Kosseegan wrote: »
    I did'n know full time employment was capped at 39 hours. A person working 40 hours aweek is not in full time employment?

    I actually thought that the cap is set at 38 hours a week.

    My question is about different matter, though. How do you differentiate a full-time position from a part-time one in legal terms? I've always thought that for instance a 30hrs/5 days a week job is a part-time one as it's less then 8 hrs a day?


  • #5
    Tom Young
    Legal Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 4,338 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tom Young


    www.citizensinformation.ie


  • #6
    Tom Young
    Legal Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 4,338 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tom Young


    I've reopened this thread at the OPs request.


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  • #7
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,579 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    The 39 hour limit has been there for about 20 years, agreed in one of the national wage agreements.
    Kosseegan wrote: »
    I did'n know full time employment was capped at 39 hours. A person working 40 hours aweek is not in full time employment?
    Thats over time. Whether its paid overtime or not is another matter.

    Depending on the scheme involved, social welfare consider more than 3 days or 20(?) hours to be full-time, not part-time.

    9-5 Monday-Friday with an hour for lunch is only 35 hour a week and is usually considered full-time.

    Individuals industry agreements sometimes specify something else, e.g. 42 hours, because 4x42 hours = 168 hours = 1 week.


  • #8
    AndyTheDude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 276 ✭✭AndyTheDude


    Victor wrote: »
    Depending on the scheme involved, social welfare consider more than 3 days or 20(?) hours to be full-time, not part-time.

    9-5 Monday-Friday with an hour for lunch is only 35 hour a week and is usually considered full-time.

    Individuals industry agreements sometimes specify something else, e.g. 42 hours, because 4x42 hours = 168 hours = 1 week.

    Thanks for your reply, Victor. That's the info I was looking for. Cheers


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