Holiday Pay Entitlement

Willieg33

I started work for my employer on 26/5/16. I'm just wondering am I entitled to holiday pay for Xmas or do you have to work a certain amount of hours to qualify. I've been working 37 hour weeks from start date with no time off. It's my first time PAYE in 9 years. Had been self employed up to that point so I'm not sure where I stand

Mrs OBumble

Yes, you're entitled to paid bank holidays from the start if you're full time. You should have had paid bank holiday days in June, August and October too.

Willieg33

Thank you. I am full time since that date.Have you any idea how many days exactly I'm owed aside from bank holidays.He paid me bank holidays. I just want to be sure before I ring employer. Bad time of year for this to happen

10 Carrolls

1.67 days per month iirc. Not sure if the bank holidays are included in that. Look up oasis.gov.ie you'll find it all there.

dobsdave

What did happen exactly? All I can see is you started a job in May, and you haven't taken any holidays yet.
If its a case that you don't know your holiday entitlement, check your contract, or ask your manager.

Gashmuncher

Try here

http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employment/employment_rights_and_conditions/leave_and_holidays/annual_leave_public_holidays.html#l9e2f0

Willieg33

Sorry I should of explained a bit better. I didn't take any summer holidays. I took 3 days for hospital appointments but wasn't paid for those. I was paid for bank holidays

allthedoyles

Might be a longshot , but if you worked in excess of 1,365 hours since you started this year , you are entitled to full holidays of 20 days which usually includes a half-day Good Friday and Christmas Eve .

Avatar MIA

allthedoyles wrote: »

which usually includes a half-day Good Friday and Christmas Eve .

Pretty sure this would only apply if company policy - it's not statutory

dobsdave

Willieg33 wrote: »

Sorry I should of explained a bit better. I didn't take any summer holidays. I took 3 days for hospital appointments but wasn't paid for those. I was paid for bank holidays

Did you ask for a 'holiday' for those

allthedoyles wrote: »

Might be a longshot , but if you worked in excess of 1,365 hours since you started this year , you are entitled to full holidays of 20 days which usually includes a half-day Good Friday and Christmas Eve .

 at the 'usually includes' statement, I will make sure to try that next year.

Dial Hard

As a full time worker you're entitled to the statutory minimum of 20 days off per year, plus public holidays, which includes Christmas Day and Stephen's Day. As Christmas falls on a Sunday this year, the PH carries to Tuesday the 27th. So yes, you are entitled to those two days off, paid.

Since you started work on May 26th you were also entitled to 12 paid annual leave days this year (presuming your company's leave calendar runs Jan-Dec). Your company may not pay for sick leave, in which case the three hospital days unpaid are fair enough, but a) a lot of companies would give you the option of taking them as holidays and b) they should have been questioning why you hadn't taken any AL at LEAST in November. Several people in my job have been off since last week because they were told "use them or lose them" with regards to unused leave days.

Seriously, though, OP, how is this only crossing your mind now?

exaisle

mansize wrote: »

You wouldn't qualify for June.

Yes he would. The June bank holiday was June 6th. He would comfortably have 40 hours worked before June 6th as he started on May 25th. (In fairness, I had a similar thought until I realised that May 26th was a Thursday.

The easiest way to work out your holiday pay entitlement is to take your gross pay, and deduct any pay received for bank holidays. What you're left with is your pay for hours worked. The holiday entitlement is 8% of this figure.

Because you haven't worked a full year, this method will PROBABLY give you your maximum entitlement.

Have a look here also:

http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employment/employment_rights_and_conditions/leave_and_holidays/annual_leave_public_holidays.html

allthedoyles

exaisle wrote: »

The easiest way to work out your holiday pay entitlement is to take your gross pay, and deduct any pay received for bank holidays. What you're left with is your pay for hours worked. The holiday entitlement is 8% of this figure.

This is not necessarily true, because if he was paid overtime you cannot multiply pay by 8%.

Its 8% of hours worked and not 8% of pay received .

Willieg33

Thanks for everything guys

exaisle

allthedoyles wrote: »

This is not necessarily true, because if he was paid overtime you cannot multiply pay by 8%.

Its 8% of hours worked and not 8% of pay received .

Yes....not necessarily true but in this case it's correct. OP said that he had worked 37 hours per week from start date so there was no overtime.

You're right in cases where there is overtime, but it doesn't figure here.