🇮🇪 This bank holiday automation is for Irish customers only.
At Nory, we are automating Irish bank holidays treatment for you. Whether team members qualify or not, and whether they worked the day or took it off, Nory handles the calculations and applies the right benefits to the right employees, saving you hours of manual admin and reducing errors.
📃 What the law says on Bank Holidays
Salaried employees are entitled to the bank holiday benefits by default.
If the location is closed and the employee is not working: they get paid 1/5 of their weekly pay.
If the location is open and the employee is working, they can:
receive an additional day of pay (on top of their pay for the day worked)
receive an additional day of leave that they can use later in the year.
Hourly paid employees are entitled to the bank holiday benefits only if they have worked more than 40 hours in the past 5 weeks.
if the location is closed and the employee is not working: they get paid 1/5 of their weekly pay (calculated by doing an avg of the last 13 weeks of work)
If the location is open and the employee is working, they can:
receive an additional day of pay (based on the last day worked).
receive an additional day of leave that they can use later in the year.
How to set the bank holiday up
From your location settings, you can navigate to holidays and events section
You will see the bank holidays that need to be set up and view more information in detail.
Click on the bank holiday, first decide whether the location is going to be open or closed for that occasion.
If your location is closed, switch the toggle off, and the one day's pay benefit will apply automatically:
Salaried employees: are entitled by default, and will receive one day worth of salary.
Hourly paid employees:
who worked > 40 hours in the previous 5 weeks leading to the bank holiday will receive 1/5 of their weekly pay.
who worked < 40 hours in the previous 5 weeks leading to the bank holiday will not be entitled to any benefit.
If your location is open, switch the toggle on and add the available services and trading hours and select the type of benefit that should apply:
Salaried employees: are entitled by default, you can decide whether they should receive an additional day of pay or an additional holiday entitlement.
Hourly paid employees: are only entitled if they worked < 40 hours in the previous 5 weeks leading to the bank holiday, you can decide whether they should receive an additional day of pay or an additional holiday entitlement.
How do we calculate and apply the entitlements
Additional day's pay
salaried employee: calculated based on the employee's salary: annual salary / 52 weeks / 5 days.
hourly paid employee: 1/5 of the weekly pay calculated based on the average employee's last 13 weeks of work.
There is the option for you to define what an average day in hours should be for hourly paid employees.
For both salaried and hourly paid employees, we create a timecard with a bank holiday shift type, which will contain the calculation for the additional day of pay.
Additional holiday entitlement
For both salaried and hourly paid employees, we add the additional holiday entitlement to their holiday balance under bank holidays entitlements.
Reporting
Under the people section in the exports, you can find the new bank holiday entitlements export.
This export will give you a breakdown for each location, of all the bank holidays and all your employees. This will enable you to drill down and understand what benefit, if any, applied to your employees. It will also enable you to understand how we calculated the entitlements.
The export contains the following information:
Employee name
Bank holiday name and date
Whether the employee was eligible or not
What benefit type applied
If additional pay: the amount of the premium
The reason
Whether the bank holiday was worked or not
Total number of hours worked in the past 5 weeks and whether they worked > 40 hours (from approved timecards only)
To check hourly paid employee's eligibility
Last day worked and hours worked that day (from approved timecards only)
To calculate hourly paid employee's additional day's pay
Average hours worked in the past 13 weeks and 1/5 weekly pay
To calculate 1/5 weekly pay for hourly paid employees