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bank holiday unfairness

  • 04-05-2013 10:45AM
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,730 ✭✭✭✭


    i have no work , thus I miss out on Bank Holidays. I think I should get an extra day with no work as compensation. How would this work? (or not work?)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,359 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    corktina wrote: »
    i have no work , thus I miss out on Bank Holidays. I think I should get an extra day with no work as compensation. How would this work? (or not work?)

    A corktina day.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Take Monday off, on me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,440 ✭✭✭✭El Guapo!


    biko wrote: »
    Take Monday off, on me.

    So he gets to spend the whole of Monday, on you?!
    Very generous of you.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Every day is a bank holiday for the jobless


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,730 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    thanks, but i think i should get an extra day off....after all if you work a bank holiday you get a day off in lieu, so I think I should get an extra day off not working.

    This is possibly a religious matter as there aren't any new days being made. Off I go to the Religion Forum I think


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,883 ✭✭✭✭Mr. CooL ICE


    Not 100% sure on this, but if you work a 35+ hour work week, you are entitled to the benefits of a bank holiday monday, be it extra pay or lieu day, regardless of whether you work the actual monday or not.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭mattjack


    corktina wrote: »
    i have no work , thus I miss out on Bank Holidays. I think I should get an extra day with no work as compensation. How would this work? (or not work?)

    Yes , both of them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,902 ✭✭✭✭Kristopherus


    corktina wrote: »
    i have no work , thus I miss out on Bank Holidays. I think I should get an extra day with no work as compensation. How would this work? (or not work?)

    Play with that new phone you have:). Or maybe try changing networks:D That will keep you occupied;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    Not 100% sure on this, but if you work a 35+ hour work week, you are entitled to the benefits of a bank holiday monday, be it extra pay or lieu day, regardless of whether you work the actual monday or not.

    You might not be far off. I work a 35+ week. If I work the bank holiday, its double pay, no day in lieu. If I dont work it, I still get an extra bit in your pay slip as its a bank holiday week, and no day in lieu entitlement.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,730 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    Not 100% sure on this, but if you work a 35+ hour work week, you are entitled to the benefits of a bank holiday monday, be it extra pay or lieu day, regardless of whether you work the actual monday or not.
    ah there's the problem, thanks. As I don't do a 35 hour week, I'm not entitled to an extra day off..

    however, i do a lot more than 35 hours a week NOT working, will that help my case do you think?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 874 ✭✭✭Gosub


    Workers get a day off work for free... non workers should then do a day of work for free.

    I have a wall that needs to be painted... :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,902 ✭✭✭✭Kristopherus


    irish-stew wrote: »
    You might not be far off. I work a 35+ week. If you work the bank holiday, its double pay, no day in lieu. If you dont work it, you still get an extra bit in your pay slip as its a bank holiday week, and no day in lieu entitlement.

    IIRC its 40 hours in the previous 5 weeks.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,730 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    irish-stew wrote: »
    You might not be far off. I work a 35+ week. If you work the bank holiday, its double pay, no day in lieu. If you dont work it, you still get an extra bit in your pay slip as its a bank holiday week, and no day in lieu entitlement.

    Off topic...will you stop being silly!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,840 ✭✭✭dmc17


    corktina wrote: »
    i have no work , thus I miss out on Bank Holidays. I think I should get an extra day with no work as compensation. How would this work? (or not work?)

    Well, if you're looking for a job and you get one just tell your new employer you're taking the first few weeks off as you missed out on bank holidays and feel aggrieved by this. I'm sure they'd be delighted :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    corktina wrote: »
    ah there's the problem, thanks. As I don't do a 35 hour week, I'm not entitled to an extra day off..

    however, i do a lot more than 35 hours a week NOT working, will that help my case do you think?

    What's your profession?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    corktina wrote: »
    Off topic...will you stop being silly!

    Least I'm not missing out on my bank holiday.

    :p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,730 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    What's your profession?

    Wall Painter...apparently


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,166 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    corktina wrote: »
    ah there's the problem, thanks. As I don't do a 35 hour week, I'm not entitled to an extra day off..

    however, i do a lot more than 35 hours a week NOT working, will that help my case do you think?

    Ah, you're a PS worker...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,730 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    Ah, you're a PS worker...

    more a BS one I think


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,732 ✭✭✭scamalert


    corktina wrote: »
    ah there's the problem, thanks. As I don't do a 35 hour week, I'm not entitled to an extra day off..

    however, i do a lot more than 35 hours a week NOT working, will that help my case do you think?
    you know what would help you ?
    Looking for a job instead of complaining here,either that or do some free courses as there plenty of them.Being unemployed is bad ,but there are sectors where working and having bank holiday fks over all the next week,as deliveries fall behind,workload increases before the Bh weekend and so on.Id say there are plenty who could complain about having to work on BH,but it depends who works where :cool:


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  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 95,643 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    corktina wrote: »
    i have no work , thus I miss out on Bank Holidays. I think I should get an extra day with no work as compensation. How would this work? (or not work?)
    Wait until Tuesday to draw the dole. :pac:

    At present each day you work means you loose 1/6th of your payment. So on a bank holiday weekend shouldn't you loose 1/5th ?


    Eh, no maybe that's not it :o

    Something, something, profit ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,952 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    I'm pissed off that I'll have to get a taxi into work.

    I had to this morning because the trains were cancelled (Someone nicked the signal cable at the ashtown junction)

    I alwaysa have to on sunday because Irish rail seem to think that they should have a lie on on sundays.

    And bank holiday mondays are just as bad.

    So that's €75 I'll have to spend on taxi's this weekend because Irish rail are cnuts


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,730 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    scamalert wrote: »
    you know what would help you ?
    Looking for a job instead of complaining here,either that or do some free courses as there plenty of them.Being unemployed is bad ,but there are sectors where working and having bank holiday fks over all the next week,as deliveries fall behind,workload increases before the Bh weekend and so on.Id say there are plenty who could complain about having to work on BH,but it depends who works where :cool:

    lol:cool::rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,730 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    Grayson wrote: »
    I'm pissed off that I'll have to get a taxi into work.

    I had to this morning because the trains were cancelled (Someone nicked the signal cable at the ashtown junction)

    I alwaysa have to on sunday because Irish rail seem to think that they should have a lie on on sundays.

    And bank holiday mondays are just as bad.

    So that's €75 I'll have to spend on taxi's this weekend because Irish rail are cnuts

    good point, I'm €75 up just for not being able to work!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,952 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    corktina wrote: »
    good point, I'm €75 up just for not being able to work!

    I hope you develop bed sores from excessive lie-in's.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,730 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    You're not my Mum! i'm up aren't i?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 955 ✭✭✭Scruffles


    scamalert wrote: »
    you know what would help you ?
    Looking for a job instead of complaining here,either that or do some free courses as there plenty of them.Being unemployed is bad ,but there are sectors where working and having bank holiday fks over all the next week,as deliveries fall behind,workload increases before the Bh weekend and so on.Id say there are plenty who could complain about having to work on BH,but it depends who works where :cool:
    yep,support staff in residential care for one,they dont even get any breaks let alone bank holidays as there is no way of having other staff come in just to cover the breaks.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,730 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    support staff in Residential Care? what do they do? chant 2468 who do we appreciate? Little old ladies!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 328 ✭✭becost


    Every day is a bank holiday for the jobless

    That's true. When you work, you know months in advance when the next BH is coming up. I only realized that next Monday was one yesterday evening when I saw a sign in a local shop saying "open bank holiday Monday".
    Every day is the weekend as well. :)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,518 ✭✭✭stefan idiot jones


    What will you be planning for a public holiday ? Draw the dole standing in the street ?


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