asked the Minister for Fisheries and Forestry the reason forestry workers must work on Whit Mondays and August bank holiday Mondays when all others in the public service have these days off.
Written Answers. - Forestry Workers Bank Holiday Work.
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Forest workers have received the Church holidays Ascension Thursday and Corpus Christi in lieu of Whit Monday and the August bank holiday Monday since 1955, an arrangement made at the request of their union at that time. There has been no request since to alter this arrangement. In all other respects they receive their full entitlement under the Holidays Employees Act, 1973, a total of 28 days per annum.