okay this video I'm going to take a look at the statutory leave entitlements in
Ireland what are the actual statutory the legal entitlements to leave in the
workplace in Ireland let's take a look first at annual leave the employee is
entitled to for working weeks of annual leave he'd leave if the hours worked in
the year exceeds 1 365 he or she is entitled to one third of a working week
each month in which the employee worked in excess of 117 hours or eight percent
of the hours worked in the year so you can calculate eight percent of the hours
worked in a year for a part-time employee for example and that will give
you the entitlement to paid annual leave the employee is entitled to whichever of
the calculations these methods of calculation gives the greatest
entitlement and there's nothing to stop an employer from giving a greater
entitlement but what I'm referring to here is the statutory legal entitlement
let's take a look at public holidays there are nine public holidays in the
year of Ireland these are commonly called bank holidays but from a legal
perspective bank holiday makes you know no sensor isn't really recognized as a
public holiday we're talking about every employee is entitled to either a paid
day off on the holiday or a paid day off that month or an extra days and you
leave or an extra days pay but the entitlement will depend too on whether
the employee is normally in obliged roster to work on the public holiday so
there is a bit of calculation to be done but by and large every employee is
entitled to a benefit to recognition of each public holiday in the country and
there are as I say nine public holidays the year we move on to maternity leave
them female employees entitled to 26 weeks unpaid maternity leave now she may
qualify for maternity benefit from the Department of Social Protection but
that's a matter for her on department as opposed to the employer in addition she
is entitled to an additional 16 weeks if but is no maternity benefits titled in
that period she's also entitled to reasonable time off for medical visits
connected with the pregnancy okay adoptive leave adoptive leave an
adoptive mother is entitled to 24 weeks consecutive weeks of unpaid leave she
may qualify for adoptive benefit but that's a matter for her on the
Department of Social Protection she may also take an additional 16 consecutive
weeks unpaid leave but with no adoptive benefits available for that period of
time carers leave Dan is employed continuously for 12 months if employees
employed continuously for 12 months then there is an enticement to 13 weeks up to
104 weeks of unpaid least now clearly 100 / 4 weeks the two years on paid
leave there a particular strict enough requirements and in terms of the caring
and who is to be cared for and so on and so forth but that's basically the
entitlement an employee may be entitled to carers benefit or carers allowance
but again this is a matter for the employee in question and Department of
Social Protection parental leave then is another statutory entitlement of
employees there's an entitlement to 18 weeks of
unpaid leave for each child under the age of eight or for each child under the
age of 16 if the child has a long-term illness force majeure leaves then this
is paid leave there's no title meant in law two three days in on a 12-month
period or five days in a 36-month period as I saying it is paid leave paternity
leave then there's two weeks paid the 240 euros per week paid leave for
fathers since this teacher this is my name is Terry goriya Melissa Rensselaer
County Meath and my contact details there on the screen I hope you find this
video useful