Bank holiday pay

tomstud12

Hi I started my new job last Friday and I wasn’t working on bank holiday but they pay for bank holidays

My question is will I get paid for bank holiday if I worked there for a day? Do you have to have certain hours? I know part time they have to have at least 40 hours for employer

OMM 0000

I would think so, although you haven't given us much information to work off.

If I was a salaried employee, getting the same X amount each month, I would expect to get the same X amount this month, regardless of there being a public holiday or not.

Stheno

OMM 0000 wrote: »

I would think so, although you haven't given us much information to work off.

If I was a salaried employee, getting the same X amount each month, I would expect to get the same X amount this month, regardless of there being a public holiday or not.

i think you have to be in the company for four or five weeks before you are entitled to bank holiday pay?

Ohmeha

You will need to refer to your employment contract with your employer or alternatively query it with your HR department

Stheno

eh your first sentence is incorrect ohmeha



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

OMM 0000

OK, I looked up the law. Tomstud12 you're not entitled to get paid for this day as you said I wasn’t working on bank holiday.

From the Organisation of Working Time Act 1997:

"...an employee shall, in respect of a public holiday, be entitled to ... [paid day off / extra day off] ... provided that if the day on which the public holiday falls is a day on which the employee would ... be entitled to a paid day off."

Tomstud12 am I right in thinking if the Monday was not a bank holiday you would not have been paid for this day?

F34

You need to have worked 40 hours in the previous 5 weeks for Bank Holiday statutory pay so since you only started on Friday and i presume not worked 40 hours you would not be entitled.

OMM 0000

Stheno wrote: »

i think you have to be in the company for four or five weeks before you are entitled to bank holiday pay?

F34 wrote: »

You need to have worked 40 hours in the previous 5 weeks for Bank Holiday statutory pay so since you only started on Friday and i presume not worked 40 hours you would not be entitled.

I checked the law. This only applies if your hours are part-time.

F34

OMM 0000 wrote: »

I checked the law. This only applies if your hours are part-time.

No it applies if you haven't completed a total of 40 hours in the previous 5 weeks

OMM 0000

F34 wrote: »

No it applies if you haven't completed a total of 40 hours in the previous 5 weeks

Please stop spreading misinformation. The law is clear:

"(4) Subsection (1) [the section saying you should get paid for the bank holiday] shall not apply, as respects a particular public holiday, to an employee (not being an employee who is a whole-time employee) unless he or she has worked for the employer concerned at least 40 hours during the period of 5 weeks ending on the day before that public holiday."

Even Citizens Information explain this:

"Your entitlement to public holidays is set out in the Organisation of Working Time Act 1997. Most employees are entitled to paid leave on public holidays. One exception is part-time employees who have not worked for their employer at least 40 hours in total in the 5 weeks before the public holiday."