Holidays and public holidays for your employee

Every employee in Ireland gets paid annual leave and public holiday benefit, full time or part time.

Annual leave

Most full-time employees get 4 working weeks a year. Part-timers build up leave as they work, usually 8% of the hours they work, up to the same 4 weeks.

• Leave is paid at the normal rate.
• You agree the dates together. As the employer you have the final say, but plan ahead with your employee.
• Leave should be taken in the year it is earned, or carried over by agreement into the first months of the next year.

See Citizens Information: annual leave.

Public holidays

Ireland has 10 public holidays a year. On each one, your employee is entitled to one of these, and you choose which:

• a paid day off on the day;
• a paid day off within a month;
• an extra day of annual leave;
• an extra day's pay.

Part-timers qualify if they have worked at least 40 hours in the 5 weeks before the holiday. See Citizens Information: public holidays.

How Claricent Care helps

Your employee asks for leave on their phone, you approve, and payroll pays it. Their holiday balance is always up to date, so there are no awkward conversations about who owes whom.