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Was NOT paid for Thursday & Friday last..legal implications?

  • 09-03-2018 10:25am
    #1
    raspberrypi67
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 831 ✭✭✭


    Folks,

    I work for a private company who treat all of us fairly poorly anyway but to no fault of myself I could not make it into work last Thursday and Friday due to the snow etc. I live in Celbridge Kildare so it was a little worse there.
    What are the legal implications here, despite it being a 'Red Alert',
    would I get anywhere???

    Thanks


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  • #2
    testicles
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  • #3
    SortingYouOut
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,386 ✭✭✭SortingYouOut


    I don't know about legal implications but if you're contracted for a certain amount of hours per week and your employer didn't provide this due to their decision to close, they have to pay you. I only heard this on a TV discussion after the storm but I could be wrong.

    If they didn't close and you just couldn't make it, they're not obliged, although it's a bit unfair.

    Beverly Hills, California



  • #4
    davo2001
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,323 ✭✭✭davo2001


    Was the company closed on the Thursday and Friday or did you just not go to work based on your own decision and circumstances?


  • #5
    Tenigate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 849 ✭✭✭Tenigate


    So through no fault of your employer you weren't able to get to work?

    You didn't work so you didn't get paid. That's not unreasonable.


  • #6
    PMBC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,112 ✭✭✭PMBC


    SortingYouOut wrote: »
    I don't know about legal implications but if you're contracted for a certain amount of hours per week and your employer didn't provide this due to their decision to close, they have to pay you. I only heard this on a TV discussion after the storm but I could be wrong.

    If they didn't close and you just couldn't make it, they're not obliged, although it's a bit unfair.

    For contract employees, paid at an hourly rate, where the workplace closed for a few days and where they had been employed continually for a few months what is the entitlement?


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    testicles
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  • #8
    joeguevara
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    We gave our employees paid leave but think we were exception. Most others I heard made staff take paid annual leave. You won’t be able to demand they give you money for days you can’t work. If you need money ask can you take holidays for days closed to get paid. You won’t get money for nothing. Reason we did give paid leave is we could all work from home. Which meant we sent some emails and answered mobiles.


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