The Easter Bank Holiday is nearly here and with the sunshine on the way just in time for the break, many will be looking forward to a few days away from work.
Each year there is the same confusion over how the bank holiday falls around Easter and when employees are due to be paid a higher rate for working.
Many think Good Friday is a bank holiday, however, it is actually not considered one in Ireland.
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Even though banks are closed on Friday as well as many businesses, those who are scheduled to work won’t be entitled to Public Holiday pay for this day.
However, those working on Easter Monday, April 10, will be entitled to one of the following as this is considered an official bank holiday:
a paid day off on that day
a paid day off within a month of that day
an additional day of annual leave
an additional day of pay
According to workplacerelations.ie, full-time workers always have entitlement to benefits for public holidays while part-time workers have entitlement to benefits when they have worked at least 40 hours in the previous five weeks.
When a person works on a public holiday, they are entitled to be paid their full agreed daily rate, and they are also entitled to benefit from the public holiday.
The official government website states that "this can be different for each public holiday and each employee depending on the individual's work pattern".
If the business you work for happens to close on the bank holiday but you would normally be due to work, then you are entitled to a normal day's pay.
On the other hand, if the business is open and you are working, you are entitled to either paid time off or an additional day's pay.
If a person is not normally rostered to work that day, they will still be entitled to one-fifth of their normal weekly wage added to their payslip.
If you stop working, are let go or laid off during the week ending on the day before a public holiday, and have worked during the four weeks in the run-up to this, then you are once again entitled to receive pay for the public holiday.
If the bank holiday occurs on a day that isn’t a normal working day - Saturday and Sunday - employees will still be entitled to any of the following:
a paid day off within a month of that day
an additional day of annual leave
an additional day of pay
"However, there is no legal entitlement to have the next working day off work," according to the website.
Finally, if a person has been placed on temporary lay-off, they are still entitled to some form of benefit - as listed above - for the public holidays that fall within the first 13 weeks of their scheduled lay-off.
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