Public Holiday pay for part time worker

[The Pool Boy]

Perhaps someone can clarify something for me. I've looked through the Organisation of Working Time Act and it's not too clear on one aspect.

It states that if a part time worker works 40 hours in the previous 5 weeks they are entitled to Public Holiday Pay.

What I'm unsure of is what level of pay they are entitled to. For arguements sake, suppose someone works one 8 hour day a week for 5 weeks. Are they entitled to 8 hours pay for the bank holiday, or are they entitled to one fifth of their normal weekly pay being 1.6 hours.

 

[NiallP]

TPB, The information you require should be contained in the OWT (Determination of Pay for Holidays) Regulations 1997: http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/1997/en/si/0475.html It's fairly turgid stuff though....

 

[Nellie123]

Say the Public Holiday is Monday, and Monday is normally a working day for you, you would be entitled to the same pay as you would have for any other Monday (providing you complied with the 40 hours in the previous 5 weeks condition).

If you do not normally on a Monday (Say Tues. Wed & Thurs are your working days) you should then be paid 2/5ths of your normal weekly wage for the Public Holiday Monday