Holiday Pay Disagreement

kluivert

Here's one for ya all.

I work part time, Average of 20 hrs a week. I work for a large company. My full time job is as a trainee accountant.

I am looking for my holiday pay from the beginning of the year to date.

I rang pay roll to find out what i was owed, still waiting on a reply.

But they said that i may not received holiday pay if i dont go on holidays, i know this already, its in the employment act, but has anyone ever gotten around this some way legally.

I actually took a couple of days of work from my p/t job there wk ending 14th Aug 05 and still haven't received payment for them. The employment act also states that you should be paid in advance for holiday pay.

As it is i only work p/t Saturday and Sunday 16hrs

Random

Not really knowing the law much myself beyond reading oasis.gov.ie ....

You aren't entitled to holiday pay unless you leave the company. Then you are only entitled to holiday pay for that one year. Your company is obliged to give you holidays, so make sure you take them within the time specified unless there is a written agreement to the contrary (up to 6 months I think).

The only way I could see of getting around it would be for them to pay you holiday pay for any days off you've taken during the year? Of course, theyd have to agree to this ... there may be some clause about holidays needing to be successive days though

The_Conductor

kluivert wrote:

The employment act also states that you should be paid in advance for holiday pay.

Really- I'm paid forthnightly in arrears, with 21 (the statutory minimum I believe) days annual leave which are fully paid. This leave is paid in exactly the same manner as my salary is normally paid, 2 weeks in arrears. It would be nice to be paid in advance- frankly I can't see it happening. I'm a civil servant btw- so I would trust that my Department are at very least obeying the very minimum of the law (though knowing them, probably not an inch more than the bare minimum.....)

skywalker

ciaranfo wrote:

You aren't entitled to holiday pay unless you leave the company.

Am I reading that out of context somehow? because it seems completely wrong.

The_Conductor

skywalker wrote:

Am I reading that out of context somehow? because it seems completely wrong.

I think he meant payment for accrued leave that you did not have time to take prior to leaving the company. Anything other than that would be totally bizarre.....