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Holiday pay.

  • 12-10-2015 5:11pm
    #1
    99problems
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 197 ✭✭


    Hi, I am a first time poster on boards and I just came to get some information for my partner.
    Basically she started a new job in September in a preschool in the local area. When she was interviewing for the position she was told she would be paid 12.50 per hour and that she would be paid for holiday's including Christmas, Easter and Halloween. She came home the other day saying that the boss told her that she is supposed to pay for holidays but the other girls told her its grand so my partner should go to the social welfare and see what she is entitled too . There is two problems with that one is that she won't be a jobseeker so she cannot claim jobseekers allowance or benefit and two is we recently applied for fis as we are both working so I doubt we would be entitled to any assistance. My partner does not have a contract so i am just asking what we can really do if her new boss refuses to pay her. Any help will be appreciated.
    Sorry if this is hard to understand I know my grammar is awful.


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  • #2
    RWC15champions
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 80 ✭✭RWC15champions


    She needs to get a signed contract of employment ASAP.
    Every employee is entitled to one.
    Without this the employer can do whatever they want!
    In terms of social welfare she MIGHT be entitled to a payment for holidays if unpaid but she would still have to satisfy all the normal conditions for Jobseekers as you have pointed out. As a family unit you might be better off on FIS anyway but no harm in her going in to check her entitlements.
    Contract first though. Very important.


  • #3
    99problems
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 197 ✭✭99problems


    RWC15champions wrote: »
    She needs to get a signed contract of employment ASAP.
    Every employee is entitled to one.
    Without this the employer can do whatever they want!
    In terms of social welfare she MIGHT be entitled to a payment for holidays if unpaid but she would still have to satisfy all the normal conditions for Jobseekers as you have pointed out. As a family unit you might be better off on FIS anyway but no harm in her going in to check her entitlements.
    Contract first though. Very important.

    she went to the citizens info yesterday and she was told we could go to the c.w.o for the day's she is not working. I only work sixteen hours a week and she works fifteen so we need those combined hours to qualify for fis. If we do qualify and she has to claim jobseekers then we lose the fis which is fine if she will get jobseekers but we will have to reapply when she goes back. That is how i understand it. She told her boss today what the citizens info said and was told it's not her problem although not in so many words and all the other people that worked there chimed in saying that they get paid from the social welfare for holidays rather than be paid from the job, so my partner should be able to do the same.


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