Vol. 450 No. 7
22 Ms Keogh asked the Minister for Enterprise and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the discrimination on grounds of holiday entitlements of permanent, part-time or halftime town clerks compared to town clerks who are effectively county council permanent staff who moonlight in this capacity; and the action, if any, he proposes to take to remedy this discrimination. [5627/95]
The Holidays (Employees) Acts, 1973 and 1991, provide a statutory minimum entitlement to annual leave and public holidays for eligible employees, including regular part-time employees.
Regular part-time employees are defined as persons who have been in the continuous employment of the same employer for not less than 13 weeks and who are normally expected to work not less than eight hour per week.
I will furnish the Deputy with an explanatory booklet which sets out the entitlements under the legislation in more detail.
Employees who consider that their employer has not complied with the holidays legislation may refer a complaint to my Department. If any town clerks consider they have not received their statutory holiday entitlements, it is open to them to submit details of their complaint to my Department for investigation.
