When calculating employee’s holiday entitlement, should it be done on pro rata basis? E.g. If "Sam" works 5 days per week at 37.5 hours and gets 20 days annual leave entitlement per annum, then takes a step back to 4 days per week, how should his annual leave entitlement then be calculated?

Posted in : First Tuesday Q&A ROI on 6 January 2015
Elaine Mettler
Arthur Cox
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Under the Organisation of Working Time Act, 1997 (the “Act”), employees are entitled to paid annual leave, calculated as one of the following:

  • (a) 4 working weeks in a leave year in which he or she works at least 1,365 hours (unless it is a leave year in which he or she changes employment),
  • (b) one-third of a working week for each month in the leave year in which he or she works at least 117 hours, or;
  • (c) 8 per cent of the hours he or she works in a leave year (but subject to a maximum of 4 working weeks).

Employees are entitled to avail of whichever of the above options provides him/her with the longest amount of leave.

This entitlement is in addition to paid leave, time-off in

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Elaine Mettler
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