If an employee works a 4 day week, Monday to Thursday, and a bank holiday falls on Friday (St. Stephen's Day this year) are they entitled to be paid for the Friday, even though they wouldn't have been due to work it?
If you have worked for your employer at least 40 hours in the 5 weeks before the public holiday and you are due to work on a public holiday you are entitled to that day off as paid leave or one of the alternatives as listed above. If you are not required to work on that particular day you should receive one-fifth of your weekly pay instead of the actual day's leave. Even if you may never be rostered to work on a public holiday you are entitled to one-fifth of your weekly pay as compensation for the public holiday.
You are entitled to be paid one fifth of your weekly salary for the Friday.
Just to clarify, let's say the person earns €20 per day so the 4 day week would see them earning €80. Do they get one fifth of €80 for the Friday (€16) or do they get an extra days pay (€20)?