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Bank holidays over Xmas

  • 06-10-2015 10:44pm
    #1
    A_Sober_Paddy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,221 ✭✭✭


    Hey just a quick one

    My normal day off is Friday, with Xmas and new years falling on Friday, what is the story with pay. Full time employment


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  • #2
    Manach
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,768 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    Offhand, treated as a normal paid holiday a work would thus get time off as per normal circumstances, subject to the usual exceptions for workers like Guards/Soldiers.


  • #3
    A_Sober_Paddy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,221 ✭✭✭A_Sober_Paddy


    Manach wrote: »
    Offhand, treated as a normal paid holiday a work would thus get time off as per normal circumstances, subject to the usual exceptions for workers like Guards/Soldiers.

    So get paid for the bank holiday and just get another day off instead


  • #4
    A_Sober_Paddy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,221 ✭✭✭A_Sober_Paddy


    Sorry now again, just a question regarding Stephens day. I know that because it falls on Saturday you've different entitlements if you work, but if your business is closed, is it treated like a regular public holiday?

    Getting a paid day? I know if you work you get either an additional days pay, additional annual leave or a day in lieu within 28 days

    Any help?


  • #5
    Kristopherus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,907 ✭✭✭✭Kristopherus


    Monday 28th Dec. is the holiday for St. Stephen's Day. You get the Monday off. If you are rostered to work in St Stephen's Day you get an exra day's pay and the Monday off.


  • #6
    Eoin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,263 ✭✭✭✭Eoin


    The public holiday is still the 26th, even if it falls on a Saturday. The norm is that the following Monday is given off, but that's not an entitlement.

    From this page:
    Employees who qualify for public holiday benefit will be entitled to one of the following:

    A paid day off on the public holiday
    An additional day of annual leave
    An additional day's pay
    A paid day off within a month of the public holiday

    The Organisation of Working Time Act provides that you may ask your employer at least 21 days before a public holiday, which of the alternatives will apply. If your employer fails to respond at least 14 days before the public holiday, you are entitled to take the actual public holiday as a paid day off.
    ......
    Where a public holiday falls on a weekend, you do not have any automatic legal entitlement to have the next working day off work. This will occur in 2015 when St Stephen's Day (26 December) will fall on a Saturday. This means that Monday 28 December 2015 is not a public holiday. Your employer can require you to attend work on those days. When this happens you are entitled to one of the following:

    A paid day off within a month of the public holiday
    An additional day of annual leave
    An additional day's pay


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  • #7
    A_Sober_Paddy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,221 ✭✭✭A_Sober_Paddy


    Eoin wrote: »
    The public holiday is still the 26th, even if it falls on a Saturday. The norm is that the following Monday is given off, but that's not an entitlement.

    From this page:

    We are not open Stephan's day, but they said they aren't paying us for it, it will be considered our day off for that week


  • #8
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Would you normally work on Saturdays? If so, that's fine so long as you get paid your standard week for that week and not a standard week minus one day.


  • #9
    A_Sober_Paddy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,221 ✭✭✭A_Sober_Paddy


    seamus wrote: »
    Would you normally work on Saturdays? If so, that's fine so long as you get paid your standard week for that week and not a standard week minus one day.

    I work every Saturday, and the following is treated as an normal DAy is it?


  • #10
    tina1040
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 479 ✭✭tina1040


    What did your employer do last time Christmas fell on a Friday?


  • #11
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    A_Sober_Paddy wrote: »
    I work every Saturday, and the following is treated as an normal DAy is it?
    Yes, the following day(s) are just normal days. But because the 26th is public holiday, your employer is required to give you a paid day off or payment in lieu.

    Most employers choose to give the following Monday off because they're closed on weekends and it makes life easy. But you normally work Saturday so your employer can give you a paid day off that Saturday.


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  • #12
    A_Sober_Paddy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,221 ✭✭✭A_Sober_Paddy


    seamus wrote: »
    Yes, the following day(s) are just normal days. But because the 26th is public holiday, your employer is required to give you a paid day off or payment in lieu.

    Most employers choose to give the following Monday off because they're closed on weekends and it makes life easy. But you normally work Saturday so your employer can give you a paid day off that Saturday.

    They just want to make us take our day off on Saturday unpaid effectively


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