Annual holiday pay and holiday bonus

At least the regular or average wage is payable for the annual holiday period. The method of reckoning pay also depends on whether you were working full time or part time when you earned the holiday. The holiday pay of monthly-paid employees will include all non-temporary bonuses.

The employer will generally pay your holiday wages before the holiday begins, but holiday salaries are paid on the normal wage payment day in national and local government, wellbeing services counties parishes and some other sectors. Collective agreements generally include more detailed rules on annual holiday pay and on the time of payment.

Unless otherwise specified in the collective agreement, your holiday compensation will be 9 or 11.5 per cent of your total pay for the leave-earning year (depending on how long your employment has continued) if you work on fewer than 14 days in a month on hourly or incentive rates. Holiday compensation is payable on all employment, even when it only lasts for a few hours.

Collective agreements generally also provide for a holiday bonus amounting to 50 per cent of the pay for the annual holiday. Your employer will pay this bonus either before or after the annual holiday, depending on the agreement concerned. Holiday bonus is based entirely on collective agreements. You have no statutory right to such a bonus.

Unless otherwise agreed, holiday bonuses will be paid with the wage payment for July in national government service, in certain private sectors and in wellbeing services counties, and with the wage payment for August in local government service.