asked the Minister for Industry and Commerce if it is an offence not to provide commission agents with holidays with pay during 1964.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Commission Agents.
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Entitlement to holidays under the Holidays (Employees) Act, 1961, is related not to the calendar year but to the employment year. An employment year is reckoned from the date, or anniversary of the date, of entry to employment.
If the agents referred to by the Deputy are employed under a contract of service, the Act has always applied to them and they are entitled to holidays with pay in each employment year.
If they are employed under a contract for services and paid solely by way of commission on premiums collected by them, they were brought within the scope of the Act by Regulations made on 22nd July, 1963, and are entitled to holidays with pay in each employment year begun since that date.
In other words, if they are members of a trade union they will get it and if not, they will not.
It does not mean that at all.
They cannot get it in any other way. The Minister knows that.