Payroll Dates

#Smokey#

I've been wondering about payroll dates and if there is any legislation around them.

For example if I was paid on the 21st of December and the next pay date was the 31st of January is this legally allowed as its 6 weeks between pay dates?

http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2000/act/5/enacted/en/print#sec10

My interpretation of the above statute would suggest there can be at most 31 days between pay periods or am I wrong?

Riskymove

#Smokey# wrote: »

I've been wondering about payroll dates and if there is any legislation around them.

For example if I was paid on the 21st of December and the next pay date was the 31st of January is this legally allowed as its 6 weeks between pay dates?

http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2000/act/5/enacted/en/print#sec10

My interpretation of the above statute would suggest there can be at most 31 days between pay periods or am I wrong?

is your pay on 21 Decemeber supposed to be 31st but brought forward due to Christmas?

Does it include pay for up to the 31 December?

seamus

You're not wrong, you're just reading it a bit wrong.

The "pay reference period" is the amount of time for which you are paid, not how often you are paid. It is this reference period which cannot exceed one month.

So when you got paid on the 21st December, the pay reference period for that payment was (probably) 1st December to 31st December. When you get paid on 31st January, the pay reference period is 1st - 31st January.

And so forth. Legally the employer can exceed one month between payments. They frequently do, but only for a few days. For example, one employer I had always chose the "last banking day of the month" as the pay day. For a given month, that day may be as early as the 27th (if Easter Monday falls on 31st March), or may go all the way to the 31st, like it does next month.

However the reference period always remains at one month.

#Smokey#

Riskymove wrote: »

is your pay on 21 December supposed to be 31st but brought forward due to Christmas?

Does it include pay for up to the 31 December?

Yes it does.

In the past the payroll was always brought forward for December and January by one week but it has now changed without notification and December is only brought forward a week not January

#Smokey#

seamus wrote: »

You're not wrong, you're just reading it a bit wrong.

The "pay reference period" is the amount of time for which you are paid, not how often you are paid. It is this reference period which cannot exceed one month.

So when you got paid on the 21st December, the pay reference period for that payment was (probably) 1st December to 31st December. When you get paid on 31st January, the pay reference period is 1st - 31st January.

And so forth. Legally the employer can exceed one month between payments. They frequently do, but only for a few days. For example, one employer I had always chose the "last banking day of the month" as the pay day. For a given month, that day may be as early as the 27th (if Easter Monday falls on 31st March), or may go all the way to the 31st, like it does next month.

However the reference period always remains at one month.

Ah I understand Seamus, Thanks for the clarification

Riskymove

#Smokey# wrote: »

Yes it does.

In the past the payroll was always brought forward for December and January by one week but it has now changed without notification and December is only brought forward a week not January

then its as explained by Seamus

youtube!

Sorry to hijack thread but I was wondering if anyone knows what the normal procedure is regarding holiday pay.

I was paid a double week yesterday for the week I had just finished and then next week up to the 28th.

I am not back in work until Jan 3rd but I sort of expected that I would paid up as I have to get paid yet for 29th/ Jan 1st and 2nd even though I will be on holidays on these dates, when I asked about this I was told those days would be paid on Thurs 4th Jan in the 2018 payroll, I was just wondering if that is the normal way as I certainly would have preferred to be paid in full whilst on holidays.

C3PO

youtube! wrote: »

Sorry to hijack thread but I was wondering if anyone knows what the normal procedure is regarding holiday pay.

I was paid a double week yesterday for the week I had just finished and then next week up to the 28th.

I am not back in work until Jan 3rd but I sort of expected that I would paid up as I have to get paid yet for 29th/ Jan 1st and 2nd even though I will be on holidays on these dates, when I asked about this I was told those days would be paid on Thurs 4th Jan in the 2018 payroll, I was just wondering if that is the normal way as I certainly would have preferred to be paid in full whilst on holidays.

But you will be paid on the 4th January as normal ... Why would be paid in advance for that week.