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Bank Holiday entitlements working part time

  • 04-09-2015 8:21am
    #1
    Hello123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 63 ✭✭


    My contract has changed from full time 5 days a week to 4 (Tues-Fri).

    I am unsure if I am entitled to any time off for the 9 bank holidays that fall in a year. Monday is no longer a work day for me. Any advice? I'd like to have some info before doing to HR!


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  • #2
    Conall Cernach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,965 ✭✭✭Conall Cernach


    Hello123 wrote: »
    My contract has changed from full time 5 days a week to 4 (Tues-Fri).

    I am unsure if I am entitled to any time off for the 9 bank holidays that fall in a year. Monday is no longer a work day for me. Any advice? I'd like to have some info before doing to HR!

    According to Citizens Information:
    If you have worked for your employer at least 40 hours in the 5 weeks before the public holiday and the public holiday falls on a day you normally work you are entitled to a day's pay for the public holiday. If you are required to work that day you are entitled to an additional day's pay.

    If you do not normally work on that particular day you should receive one-fifth of your weekly pay. 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.

    If you do not have normal daily or weekly working hours, under SI 475/1997, an average of your day’s pay or the fifth of your weekly pay is calculated over the 13 weeks you worked before the public holiday.

    In all of the above situations your employer may choose to give you paid time off instead of pay for the public holiday.


  • #3
    Hello123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 63 ✭✭Hello123


    Conall Cernach wrote:
    According to Citizens Information:
    If you do not normally work on that particular day you should receive one-fifth of your weekly pay. 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.

    I will be on maternity leave next year and if I was full time I would accumulate 9 bank holidays which I would take as paid leave. Could I be entitled to ask for one-fifth of this day off?


  • #4
    Conall Cernach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,965 ✭✭✭Conall Cernach


    Hello123 wrote: »
    I will be on maternity leave next year and if I was full time I would accumulate 9 bank holidays which I would take as paid leave. Could I be entitled to ask for one-fifth of this day off?
    I would say you are entitled to the one-fifth.
    Public holidays and annual leave


    You are entitled to leave for any public holidays that occur during your maternity leave (including additional maternity leave). The right of employees to leave for public holidays is set down in Section 21 of the Organisation of Working Time Act 1997.

    Apart from pay and superannuation, time spent on maternity leave (including additional maternity leave) is treated as though you have been in employment, and this time can be used to accumulate annual leave and public holiday entitlement


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