April and May are months full of holidays: Easter Monday, Liberation Day and Workers’ Day. How are they paid?
For those who work as an employee there are some “luckier” months of others. Specifically, this April and next May represent a typical case, in which there are three working days “missed”as national holidays.
We are obviously talking about Monday 1 April, Easter Monday or – more vulgarly – “Easter Monday”, on Thursday 25 April, the Liberation Day and Wednesday 1 May, the Labour day. These are days, where in general those who work stay at homeat rest.
But how these holidays are counted on your pay slip? And what happens if – working in shifts – Yes is forced Instead to go to the office or factory? Let’s go in order, and try to understand how national holidays are generally considered in relation to workers’ salaries.
Let’s start first with the most ordinary case, that of a employee that – on holidays – he is at rest. All CCNL (National Collective Labor Agreements) provide that the national holidays they are paid regularlyas if we were working.
National holidays and pay slip
In the cases mentioned in April and May – that is Easter Monday, 25 April And May 1 – these are public holidays this year they fall “inside” the week, ergo are paid normally. The case, for example, is different Easterwhich is obviously always on Sunday: in that case the holiday is “not enjoyed”and therefore it comes paid with compensation.
But be careful holidays that fall on Saturdaybecause in this case it generally does not trigger nor any remuneration nor any compensation. For example, this year theEpiphany – January 6th – fell on a Saturday, and for the vast majority of workers this is a day simply “not worked”.
Work on holidays
Let us now deal with the case in which – a worker or a shift worker in general – is forced to work on a public holiday. In this case, generally, the CCNL provide appropriate provisions salary increases.
Even if it is advisable to verify in detail what is established in your employment contract, it can essentially be said that all holidays worked – if they fall on a weekday – they are paid more. L’minimum increase for the day it is of 30% – as for example in trade sector – but it can even lead to an increase by 50%as in the case of metalworkers.
